Hero Quotes · Page 98

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship…

— Mark Twain

Five million Jews are regarding me as a traitor, but six billion people around the world think me as a hero and…

— Mordechai Vanunu

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

— Tom Brady

Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.

— Patricia C. Wrede

My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like…

— Michael K. Williams

Dale Earnhardt was kind of a hero of mine.

— Daniel Ricciardo

I'm just a step away I'm just a breath away Losin' my faith today (Fallin' off the edge today) I am just…

— Skillet

I prepared the script of 'Pataas', when working for 'Kandireega'. When I approached Kalyan Ram with the script, he liked it and…

— Anil Ravipudi

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules... they probably existed…

— Oliver Stone

American fighters of the Pacific War were not heroes. The desperation of island combat included exchanged barbarities of which no one would…

— James Carroll

I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.

— Rodney King

'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power…

— Jenova Chen

I certainly don't think of myself as an action hero.

— Clive Owen

I mentioned before, these [classic Disney films] are classic mythological tales, a hero's journey, and have been told for thousands of years.…

— Roger Ross Williams

When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel…

— Douglas Brinkley

“While friends are there to motivate us and keep us pleased. Our enemies are there to annoy us, which makes us work…

— Simon Zingerman

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the…

— Hugh Laurie

“The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.”

— Victor Hugo

Heroes are born to be troublemakers.

— Mason Cooley

One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes…

— George W. Bush

“I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky.…

— Seanan McGuire

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

— David Gemmell

Freud was a hero. He descended to the "Underworld" and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a…

— R. D. Laing

There is no true orator who is not a hero.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

DJs used to be American heroes. No more. Today, being a disk jockey is generally regarded as being slightly more respectable than…

— Larry Lujack

My heroes would never let me down; they never have. I've never been disappointed by any of them.

— Chrissie Hynde

I think people want to see a hero. It's interesting that with everything that goes on now from shootings to everything, as…

— Lil Rel Howery

“The whole point of having heroes is you can look up to people who can get away with whatever they want. Because…

— Daniel Ehrenhaft

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

— Anonymous

I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have…

— Linda Ronstadt

“If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

Beauty is often spoken of as though it only stirs lust or admiration, but the most beautiful people are so in a…

— Rebecca Solnit

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

— Peter Capaldi

'Satya' and 'Company' are two very dark and brooding relationship films; there was no hero.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Guitar hero beats playing real guitar....not!

— Kings Of Leon

Yet reason frowns in war's unequal game, Where wasted nations raise a single name; And mortgag'd states their grandsire's wreaths regret, From…

— Samuel Johnson

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to…

— Jeanette Winterson

Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

— Winston Marshall

I could not be arm candy to a hero.

— Pooja Bhatt

People see their own lives as stories; a lifelong story with a single hero or heroine... much contemporary unhappiness is due to…

— Guy Claxton