Hero Quotes · Page 40

“There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.”

— Amit Kalantri

Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.

— George Santayana

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

— Jim Morrison

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

— James A. Garfield

“a true hero is not through mortality or stenghth but love and hope”

— Jasmine Rodriguez

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

— William Shenstone

The hero journey is inside of you; tear off the veils and open the mystery of your self.

— Joseph Campbell

I think we all see ourselves as the heroes in our own lives.

— Tom Hiddleston

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I get recognized for 'Reaper' in the U.K. I was in Costa Rica and got recognized for 'Heroes.' In Canada, it's 'Rookie…

— Missy Peregrym

If the hero is not a person, the emblem Of him, even if Xenophon, seems To stand taller than a person stands,…

— Wallace Stevens

Quick with advice and always caring, the 41st President of the United States was a statesmen, a role model, and an American…

— Chris Sununu

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied…

— Mark Twain

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to…

— Kit Williamson

I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice.

— Jenny Eclair

If a hero is a person on which you've made an explicit choice model yourself, mine is my father for showing me…

— Vivienne Ming

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you…

— Andrew Solomon

You don't just have people who wake up in the morning and say, "What evil things can I do today, because I'm…

— Anonymous

If you look at Indian cinema, it has always been about the 'hero.' So it is not just a characteristic of the…

— Radhika Pandit

I haven´t written on piano since It Bites. You can tell my songs that I´ve written on piano with It Bites cause…

— Francis Dunnery

Belgium, where there occurred one of the rare appearances of the hero in history, was lifted above herself by the uncomplicated conscience…

— Anonymous

When I did the video for 'Holding Out For A Hero,' we filmed that on top of the Grand Canyon, and that…

— Bonnie Tyler

The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun... but I would never waste time on a…

— Lori Foster

Annabeth didn’t want to sleep, but her body betrayed her. Her eyelids turned to lead. “Percy, wake me for second watch. Don’t…

— Rick Riordan

Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

— Tatiana Maslany

Pretty girl and all. Asking. Gotta love that. Stuff of heroes. Don't get the role too often.

— Karen Marie Moning

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hero is not the person who fights with his enemy but who turns his enemy into his friend.

— Anonymous

When you break the rules and you win, you're a hero; when you lose, you're scurrilous.

— Peter Coyote

“Be a hero or enjoy fucking life, don’t try to be bunch of stupid flesh acting as normal humans.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

The man who is not afraid of danger is not a hero, but a psychopath.

— George Mikes

To every little girl, her father is a hero. My father actually is one.

— Alexandra Kerry

My heroes are all dead. They all died fighting a good cause. I don't believe in living heroes.

— Terry Mark

“The definition of a hero changes depending on the needs of the person with the dictionary.”

— Lindsay Buroker

You don't need to be a hero just be a man with soul of a lion.

— AndyK

I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero.

— Bas Rutten

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

— Michelle Shocked

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

— Albert Camus

Human history is work history. The heroes of the people are work heroes.

— Meridel Le Sueur