Hero Quotes · Page 65

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

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

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who…

— Chris Kyle

“Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?” Quentin shook his head. “A hero is alive,” Father Harry said.…

— Scott Sigler

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of…

— Terence Fisher

I wish that the people who sing about the deeds of heroes would think about the people who have to clear up…

— Terry Pratchett

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my…

— King Hu

I just wish one of the big American studios had bought 'Devdas.' They would have pitched the film for the Oscars in…

— Sanjay Leela Bhansali

My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream,…

— Tim McGraw

“I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin'…

— George Carlin

That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics…

— Jessica Lynch

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the…

— Vaclav Havel

This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and…

— Sivananda

I want you to know that should something happen to me, don’t worry about my body. My soul isn’t going to return…

— Paullina Simons

There are men who bloom in chaos. You call them heroes or villains, depending on which side wins the war, but until…

— Guillermo del Toro

by now you've already formed your own impression. you believe that an act committed a lifetime ago defines a man, or you…

— Jodi Picoult

So many misconceptions surround the notion of heroism. Far too many categorize a hero as a champion on the battlefield, a commander…

— Brandon Mull

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

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

— Tavis Smiley

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

— Mandy Patinkin

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

— Reggie Miller

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

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

— Stephanie Garber

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

— Orhan Pamuk

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

— Sadio Mane

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