Hero Quotes · Page 55

You can die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain. -Harvey Dent

— Anonymous

It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.

— Joseph Campbell

“You were the villain in your own story, Martinez. In mine, you’ve always been my hero.”

— M. Robinson

I see not any road of perfect peace which a man can walk but after the counsel of his own bosom.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Just tell me one boy, just one who at seven didn't aspire to be a hero or a fireman.

— Miguel Delibes

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

— C. J. Cherryh

We need to move from the leader as hero, to the leader as host.

— Margaret J. Wheatley

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

— John Rhys-Davies

One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a…

— James Ohlen

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher…

— Teresa de Lauretis

For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was…

— Graham Greene

And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he…

— Joseph Campbell

I'm just getting back into my songwriting groove. It's still pretty early. But I don't want to make 'Hero 2.' It's going…

— Maren Morris

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is…

— Christian Nestell Bovee

I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life,…

— Bryce Dallas Howard

Two words: Kasim Sulton. I've been a Utopia fan for a long, long time, and Kasim's a pop hero of mine. I…

— Paul Gilbert

Playing in the same team as Sachin is a huge honour. His balance of mind, shrewd judgment, modesty and, above all, his…

— Rahul Dravid

I liked the idea of creating a new pop-culture, folkloric hero character that I created with 'Django' that I think's gonna last…

— Quentin Tarantino

Teachers who have plugged away at their jobs for twenty, thirty, and forty years are heroes. I suspect they know in their…

— Andy Rooney

This industry is in a hurry to gain solid results. They expect a hero or a heroine to get intimate on the…

— Priyanshu Chatterjee

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet. No…

— Robert Kennedy

It's nice that I've grown up with the same friends since I was 12, I have a very close knit set of…

— Robert Pattinson

I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship…

— Liz Williams

The cello is a hero because of its register - its tenor voice. It is a masculine instrument, whereas the violin is…

— Mstislav Rostropovich

The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.

— Andrew Bernstein

I think Hero Hockey India League is the world's best hockey league.

— Sandeep Singh

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

— Anthony Trollope

Ain't nobody's hero, but I wanna be heard on your Hot 9-7 everyday, that's my word.

— P Diddy

“Heroes don't get happy endings. They give them to other people.”

— Stephanie Garber

I wanted to be Ronaldinho. I studied him a lot. He was my hero.

— Sadio Mane

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

— Orhan Pamuk

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

— W. H. Auden

You know at 14, when you lose your hero - your father - that's why I hold him on such a high pedestal.

— Jason Bonham

Kids are wandering around the streets today that will become tomorrow's criminals that were yesterday's heroes.

— Bernard Marcus

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

— Barack Obama

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

— Tavis Smiley