Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness. — Matthew Gray Gubler
I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero. — Pooch Hall
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John… — Patrick Stewart
Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night! — Bonnie Tyler
Clint, my hero, is coming across as sad and pathetic. He didn't need to do this to himself. It's unworthy of him. — Roger Ebert
I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me… — Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies — Alan Lomax
When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own… — Unknown Author
Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all . — Julie Kagawa
I have never had any hero in my life or in photography. I just travel, I look and everything influences me. Everything influences me. I… — Josef Koudelka
He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will… — Frederic Tudor
Men grow up expecting to be the hero of their own story. Women grow up expecting to be the supporting actress in somebody else's I… — Laurie Penny
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes. — Jennifer McMahon
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a… — Lynn Flewelling
You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them, you should be inspired by them. — Dave Grohl
A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's shoulders to let… — Christopher Nolan
I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a… — Mackenzie Astin
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do… — Dalton Trumbo
I tell my kids, what is the difference between a hero and a coward? What is the difference between being yellow and being brave? No… — Cus D'Amato
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it. — Ellis Peters
My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an… — Goran Ivanisevic
But baseball bounced back in the next decade to reclaim its place as the national pastime: new heroes, spirited competition, and booming prosperity gave birth… — John Thorn
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away. — Tom Brokaw
The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations. — Joseph Campbell
If you look inside yourself, and you believe, you can be your own hero. — Mariah Carey

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