Hero Quotes · Page 47

“When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.”

— John le Carré

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The SDP's founder, Roy Jenkins, was my hero and later mentor.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day.

— Steven Cojocaru

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

— Margaret Atwood

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

— Vijay Antony

To work with one of your heroes is the greatest things you can ever hope for.

— Jay DeMarcus

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

— Anonymous

Muhammad Ali is a true hero, and the fact there's something wrong with him is his badge of valour. He's a great…

— George Foreman

Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the…

— Walter Savage Landor

At the peak of his scientific triumphs, Newton became a 'head,' a student of the inner spiritual world - or in modern…

— Timothy Leary

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I…

— Andrew Davidson

To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero…

— Raymond Queneau

Be you own hero, be your own saviour, send all your suffering into the fire. Let no foot, mark your ground, let…

— Patrick Wolf

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

— Linda Ronstadt

After the passing of my personal hero, Anthony Bourdain, I've been reflecting a lot on his influence on food culture. He made…

— Antoni Porowski

Griffin leaned across the desk, his arms braced on the now-clear top, and stared into Wakefield’s outraged eyes. “We seem to be…

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“If through no fault of his own the hero is crushed by a bulldozer in Act II, we are not impressed. Even…

— Bernard Knox

As always, there was an all-American war hero look to him, coded in his tousled brown hair, his summer-narrowed hazel eyes, the…

— Maggie Stiefvater

Jeff Gordon is a hero and a legend of the sport, and that's something you're never going to do. You obviously have…

— Chase Elliott

Your life is not little, and your playing small doesn’t serve the world. Your living large, on the other hand-your being your…

— Martha Beck

The whole idea of Captain America was borne of a time 80-something years ago. That was a time of the Second World…

— Kari Skogland

Acting is the great love of my life. It gives you permission to use all parts of yourself. Permission to be the…

— Blake Griffin

Walt Disney has never addressed himself to children once in his life - never. The material of his cartoons is made to…

— Frances Clarke Sayers

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

— Steven Weinberg

You think I'm a hero? I'm not a hero. And if you're smart, that scares you.

— Ramandeep Singh

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

— Joseph Stalin

My childhood hero was Timmy Mallett. He came to my primary school and it was the best day.

— Wes Streeting

Y'all were heroes from the beginning. You just didn't 'turn' all of a sudden

— Anonymous

“Asaka: Because I'm a hero of justice. Wataru: Eh... Asaka: AS far as you're concerned, that is.”

— Satoru Kannagi

In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life.

— Bliss And Cerney

“It’s your hero complex, isn’t it? You should see someone about that.” “Right after I get my head examined.”

— Brynn Kelly

New York's a place where you can go from being a hero to a zero in about two weeks.

— David Lee

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

— Jay Inslee

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

— Maxwell Anderson

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

— Ed Belfour

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

— Brad Bird

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.”

— Brad Herzog

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

— Vicky Kaushal