Hero Quotes · Page 48

“There are no heroes, just those that choose to be servants.”

— Ricky Maye

Endurance is a much better test of character than any single act of heroism, however noble.

— John Lubbock

Everyone can't be the hero. I'd rather be what was chosen for me.

— Dillon Brooks

A hero will be having a great one of the special gift everyday !

— Brandy

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Alex Higgins was my hero, so to play in Belfast, at the superb Waterfront Hall, is very special to me.

— Jimmy White

The condition-of-England question is a practical one. The condition of England demands a hero, not a poet.

— Henry David Thoreau

Videogames need more women and are too reliant on male, stubble-covered heroes.

— Rhianna Pratchett

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to…

— Jodi Picoult

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men.…

— David Guterson

I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.

— Bob Feller

I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one…

— Edmund Hillary

“He had golden-brown hair, the most vivid baby-blue eyes, and a body that belonged on the cover of Men’s Health magazine. Her…

— Lia Davis

Here is a hero who did nothing but shake the tree as soon as the fruit was ripe. Does this seem to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

One day we are a hero, another day we are a zero. Without me, Cardiff would have gone bust. Because of my…

— Vincent Tan

“Heroism wasn't about what you could do, it was about what you did. It was about who you saved when they needed…

— Marissa Meyer

It's funny that Chairman Mao's great hero was Napoleon, because Napoleon started out as a revolutionary for the underdogs and then made…

— Robert Wyatt

Used with due abstinence, hope acts as a healthful tonic; intemperately indulged, as an enervating opiate. The visions of future triumph, which…

— James Fitzjames Stephen

Just like on Guitar Hero, there are things that are similar and things that are not similar at all. When I first…

— DJ Shadow

Prince was a hero. He was the brother, the black man that was a little different. As a kid, you thought, 'Wow,…

— Fantastic Negrito

So when I open the door on Halloween, I am confronted by three or four imaginary heroes, such as G.I. Joe, Conan…

— Dave Barry

'Heroes' was great, but I was like the sorority sister, the friend. So often, we as black women, we are cast as…

— Candice Patton

Writing the songs at the cabin, I couldn't help but be drawn to the boom-chicka rhythms as much as I tried to…

— Dale Watson

“No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of…

— Jim Butcher

Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.

— Dorothy Norman

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

— Willie Stargell

The call to adventure signifies that destiny has summoned the hero.

— Joseph Campbell

I feel like life is much greater than a hero or a villain: there's good people that sometimes make mistakes.

— Peter Dinklage

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

— Robert the Bruce

One day you are a hero, the next day, media and people put you down if you are not giving your best.

— Angad Bedi

Hero not the handsome actor who plays a hero's role. Hero not the glamour girl who'd love to sell her soul.

— Rush

“I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.”

— John David Anderson

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

— Max Beerbohm

If you want to be a hero, you've got to take hero shots.

— Reggie Miller

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a…

— Mandy Patinkin

He was a humanist then, he's a humanist now, and to my mind John Carlos is an authentic American hero.

— Tavis Smiley

We don’t need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

— Banksy

Martin Lawrence is one of my comedic heroes, and he's a genius.

— Tracy Morgan

A lot of times evil - or, in the case of comedy, stupid - is more interesting than the hero.

— Gary Cole

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

— Maya Angelou