Hero Quotes · Page 61

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

— Marilyn Manson

Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

— Plato

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

— Charles Olson

We're in a different time right now, and I think we're ready to see a different type of female hero.

— Brie Larson

I have my heroes. Some of whom are still alive, and unfortunately many that aren't.

— Mike Royer

“An ordinary man gets arrogant with beauty, conceited with knowledge and ruthless with power.”

— Amit Kalantri

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

— W. P. Kinsella

We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.

— Frances Hardinge

We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.

— Shin Kyung-sook

Luke gazed at Annabeth. "You knew. I almost killed you, but you knew . . ." "Shhh." Her voice trembled. "You were…

— Rick Riordan

The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore.…

— Twyla Tharp

One day you are the hero and the next day you are the zero. I got to take advantage of every opportunity…

— Charlie Brenneman

If I was a super hero, I'd want to be the man of peace so that I could click my fingers and…

— Lee Ryan

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

— Ang Lee

The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our…

— Peter H. Reynolds

The angel has confided in me that he is going to ask the Lord if he can become Spider-Man. [...] The children…

— Christopher Moore

When I was a kid, my big hero was the number 10 of Flamengo and not the number 10 of Santos. His…

— Zico

To be a true hero you must be a true Christian. To sum up then, heroism is largely based on two qualities-…

— Anonymous

Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

There's more to me, more to the universe, than I suspected. Room for all the dreams I ever had, and all the…

— Joan D. Vinge

For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true…

— Peter Thiel

As colleagues, Shammi ji was my first co-actor and the hero of my debut film 'Junglee' in 1961. I met him for…

— Saira Banu

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly…

— Rollo May

Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish…

— A. Whitney Brown

Whether I'm a hero or a zero doesn't really matter. It's all perception.

— Lissie

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

— Garrison Wynn

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

— Peter Cullen

“I've been bad. I've been good. Weak and Strong. Brave and afraid. A hero and a killer.”

— Katie Alender

All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.

— Peter Carey

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

— Thomas Carlyle

Ain't nobody more famous than me. I am my own hero and everything else. If you are a SEAL you can say…

— Rudy Boesch

My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the…

— Orhan Pamuk

“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most”

— Jane Heller

“It's Better To Be The Hero Of Your Own Story Than To Become The Villain Of Someone Else's - Iris”

— Chris Colfer The Land of Stories

She sacrificed her life to make things right," Mitchell grumbled. "She[Silena Beuregard] was a hero

— Rick Riordan

You have always been my brother and my hero, and heroes are hard to find.

— Ritu Ghatourey

“You can’t rescue those unwilling to change. Be your own hero.”

— Jason Nelson

“Heros aren't defined by the way they die but how they live.”

— Oliver North

A good woman would rather be the mother of a genius than the wife of a hero

— Anonymous

“No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is not a hero, but because the valet…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel