Hero Quotes · Page 66

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

— Barack Obama

We can all be heroes, joining together in a grand mission to save those living on this little blue planet.

— Jay Inslee

The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.

— Maxwell Anderson

I got my heroes secondhand, from television and movies, to a certain extent.

— Brad Bird

One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.

— Ed Belfour

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.”

— Brad Herzog

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

— John Lubbock

A thousand glorious actions that might claim Triumphant laurels, and immortal fame, Confus'd in crowds of glorious actions lie, And troops of…

— Joseph Addison

I'd like to do something to help the worst afflicted, but I can't. It's not possible to save everybody. Even heroes have…

— Darren Shan

The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the…

— Lev Grossman

If a guy can play Guitar Hero with me and sit at home and watch the Food Network and read magazines with…

— Blake Lively

“...you are your own hero. Do not wait for someone to save you, rescue you or tell you that you are ok.…

— John Goode

While the hero journeys for external fame, fortune, and power, the heroine tries to regain her lost creative spirit… Once she hears…

— Valerie Estelle Frankel

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and…

— Markus Zusak

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around…

— Peter S. Beagle

I think what I've tried to do is make the world a better place. I think that's what's really important. Nobody remembers…

— Les Wexner

If you are a certain kind of white conservative, especially a white male conservative, then Roger Ailes was a hero. He constructed…

— Joy Reid

Mother Teresa was a hero of mine for a long time. I just like the way she took on the world from…

— Jack Canfield

John Lewis is such a remarkable human being. Literally, such a beautiful human being. I remember the first time I met him.…

— Stephan James

Dieter Dengler was an amazing man. Who knows what he would've been had he not ever been tested in this way? It's…

— Christian Bale

Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever…

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to…

— A. C. Bradley

Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others…

— Les Carlyon

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

— Ricky Maye

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

— Vicky Kaushal

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

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

— Jimmy White

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Rhianna Pratchett

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

— Henry David Thoreau

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

For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us...

— Joseph Campbell

The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship.

— Mahatma Gandhi