Hero Quotes · Page 52

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

— Jethro Tull

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

— Riley Keough

I have never regarded myself as a hero, but Tenzing undoubtedly was.

— Edmund Hillary

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

— Jerry Bruckheimer

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

— Joseph Campbell

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

— Black Hawk

“If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.”

— Steve Maraboli

“The hero never rests fights every breath. When he dies god takes him.”

— Nadair Desmar

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.

— Frankie Boyle

It’s worth noting that you can devote your life to community service and be a total schmuck. You can spend your life…

— David Brooks

Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's…

— Noam Chomsky

No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace -…

— Colin Powell

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes,…

— Aaron Hill

We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain…

— James Franco

In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most…

— Kevin Sorbo

No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers, The heroes of old, Bear the brunt, in a minute…

— Robert Browning

Perseverance is more than endurance." It is endurance combined with absolute assurance and certainty that what we are looking for is going…

— Oswald Chambers

“Heroes are men who admit to being difficult to live with, who demand extremely high standards in every aspect of their lives,…

— Robyn Donald

I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I…

— Hayden Panettiere

Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character…

— Ruben Ostlund

I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got…

— David Cook

“The act of consciousness is central; otherwise we are overrun by the complexes. The hero in each of us is required to…

— James Hollis

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who…

— John Green

“Her statistics were more than a study... For her, Quetelet was the hero as scientist, and the presentation copy of his Physique…

— Karl Pearson

The hero's need of the people outlasts their need of him.

— Aneurin Bevan

We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

— Jan de Bont

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

— Umberto Eco

“People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.”

— Amit Kalantri

It was a story called ‘The Hero’ which I sold to Galaxy magazine in 1970, for $94.

— George R. R. Martin

“Then, like a great hero of old, I crawled into my hole.”

— Rick Riordan

The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,

— Douglas McIlroy

“We just met and we're already doing heroin?" I said. "Seems sudden.”

— Gene Doucette

There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.

— Elizabeth Hoyt

“We’re all heroes at something, and cowards at something else.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

Elvis may have been my first hero, but you couldn't relate to him.

— Robert Hilburn

Issa Rae is a hero of mine, and I'm going to try not to completely creep her out. I love 'Insecure.'

— Rachel Brosnahan

I've really had two heroes in my life. My father and Ronald Reagan.

— Ted Cruz

Our heroes of the former days deserved and gained their never-fading bays.

— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon

When Michael Jordan quit, I suddenly found myself without a sports hero.

— Mike Royko

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte