Hero Quotes · Page 54

We were like heroes, to stand there and observe the police, and the police were scared to move upon us.

— Bobby Seale

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

— Gene Hackman

“Legacy requires sacrifice. I want to have a legacy, I want to be remembered as the hero.”

— P.L. Martin

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

— Ina May Gaskin

The hero dead cannot expire: The dead still play their part.

— Charles Sangster

... many persons strive for high ideals, and everywhere life is full of heroism.

— Max Ehrmann

At 17, all I wanted was to be a famous junky. Like all my heroes.

— Jerry Stahl

A country of victims is also a country of heroes, risking their lives so others will live. This is the Philippines, the…

— Tony Meloto

Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.

— Charlie Sheen

If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the…

— Siegfried Sassoon

We had to tell a hero's story, and the minute you have too many characters, it will take too much time in…

— Aditya Dhar

His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. Like them, he was slandered…

— William Manchester

Every decision you make can change the world. The best life is the one the gods don't notice. You want to live…

— Steven Erikson

If a bright-coated fundraiser was hassling a confused pensioner in the street, people would see, some hero would intervene. But it's happening…

— Sara Pascoe

There is more than one kind of death? (Kat) Yes. Cowards aren’t the only ones who die a thousand deaths. Sometimes heroes…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Tim Thornton's portrait of a pop culture obsession is so convincing that one can't help wishing that his fictional alt rock band…

— Jay McInerney

Essentially, my hero-role model is Muhammad Ali, because when I watched this one fight of his with my dad when I was…

— Diane Lane

I read the story and reread the story, but I still could not find the universality that the little Irishman had spoken…

— Ulysses S. Grant

One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal…

— Regina Doman

I write about heroes all the time, and I'm struck by how much of what fills us with wonder in the man-made…

— Gail Simone

I put my heart and soul everyday into showing my appreciation for the incredible sacrifices of the US Military heroes by using…

— Ted Nugent

The ancients had a taste, let us say rather a passion, for the marvellous, which caused ... grouping together the lofty deeds…

— Francois Arago

Paul Gascoigne was one who I watched as a young boy. He was a hero to all of us really. Chris Waddle…

— Gary Cahill

“People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.”

— Amit Kalantri

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

— Noam Chomsky

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love…

— Cheech Marin

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

— Alex Kapranos

I never knew anything about Bollywood before I signed 'Hero.'

— Athiya Shetty

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

— Lajos Kossuth

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

In Australia, I'm built up as this comedy hero, which was never my intention.

— Chris Lilley

Sometimes I forget how much people look at you as their hero. I forget that.

— Matt Kemp

“Robert used to tell me it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero”

— Paula Quinn

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

— Rick Riordan

“The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.”

— Daniel J. Boorstin

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

— Chrissie Hynde

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

— Boris Becker

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

— Henry Miller

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

— Victor Hugo