Hero Quotes · Page 17

The Yankees have twenty-five heroes.

— Derek Jeter

Goddess of song, teach me the story of a hero.

— Anonymous

“Nothing tarnishes a hero as much as failure.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I am exploring the beautiful world.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

— William C. Brown

I think the term 'hero' comes with a lot of baggage.

— Satyadev Kancharana

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

— Leon Bloy

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes.

— Anonymous

I like grey characters; fantasy for too long has been focused on very stereotypical heroes and villains.

— George R. R. Martin

You can tell a lot about a person by who his or her heroes are.

— Steve Jobs

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

— Patrick Rothfuss

I wanted to be a hero, then I wanted to be an actor. But always I wanted to be respected as a…

— Prosenjit Chatterjee

Sometimes you can't wait for someone else to save you. You have to be the hero that saves yourself.

— Sonya Parker

When you talk about heroines and heroes, at the top of the list has got to be the single moms of America.

— Bernie Sanders

“I have brought you a hero’s fate, and a hero’s fate is never happy. It is never anything but tragic.”

— Rick Riordan

Heroes are known for great battles they've won. Cancer, kills the greatest warriors

— SangFroid Stalker

I think maybe, if I could be a Canadian super hero, I'd have some kind of freezing power and some sort of…

— Nathan Fillion

My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life thats what Id be - a regimental sergeant major or a…

— Bob Ainsworth

Danger Mouse' is James Bond essentially. A rodent James Bond. Oh and slightly Batman too I suppose. And let's chuck in a…

— Alexander Armstrong

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And…

— Connie Willis

“I don’t need to be a hero, Fool. I’d settle for feeling that what I did every day had significance to someone…

— Robin Hobb

I feel like I learned very early on that your heroes are only as powerful as your villains. And I'm attracted to…

— Renny Harlin

“You have a hero complex, my darling. Life would be so much easier for you if you were even a little bit…

— K.M. Shea

I saw United matches on TV as a kid in Sao Paulo. I loved watching Ruud van Nistelrooy. He was a hero…

— Robinho

They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a…

— Rick Riordan

[Donald] Trump wanted the nomination, and all these other Republicans and their supporters didn't want Trump to have the nomination. So who…

— Rush Limbaugh

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories,…

— George Packer

For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right,…

— Caitlin Moran

“Those who remarked in the countenance of this young hero a dissolute audacity mingled with extreme haughtiness ... could not yet deny…

— Sir Walter Scott

And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back…

— Becky Fischer

For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed…

— Christopher Moore

The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing…

— Joseph Campbell

All great men are play actors of their own ideal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

We need to redefine what a hero looks like.

— Allison Schroeder

“People only believe in heroes when they win.”

— K.M. Weiland

“But are they heroes or mere dreamers?”

— Gaius Valerius Flaccus

“Heroes are remembered but legends never die.”

— George Herman Ruth

Duane Jones is a personal hero of mine.

— Tony Todd

He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.

— Sammy Sosa

“I guess it's hard to be the villain without a hero.”

— Lindsey Leavitt