Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but… — Larry Coryell
I was brought up to believe that a person must be rescued when drowning, regardless of religion and nationality. The term ‘hero’ irritates me greatly… — Irena Sendler
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older. — Frank Shorter
Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs — Mary Higgins Clark
I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real… — Homer Hickam
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. — Merton Miller
The law has no power over heroes. — Charlotte Lennox
All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today. — Yip Harburg
She and Marie were Montreal girls, not trained to accompany heroes, or to hold out for dreams, but just to be patient. — Mavis Gallant
The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he)… — Matthew Henry
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes — Harvey Pekar
What we dedicate today is not a memorial to war, rather it's a tribute to the physical and moral courage that makes heroes out of… — Bob Dole
One trophy is good, but two are better. That way, when a hero wears his medals on his chest, at least his steps are level… — Johan Cruijff
Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig. — Leon Bloy
Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are… — Stanley Kunitz
I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there… — Robert Sheckley
In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society… — Mircea Eliade
Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive. — Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make… — Marcus Buckingham
These often unsung heroes understand...that poverty, disease and famine are just as deadly and destructive as earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis. Individuals ...are taking on these… — Kofi Annan
When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves. — Vanessa Carlton
Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved… — Connie Willis
We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history… — Chuck Palahniuk
A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and,… — Walter Mosley
The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us;… — Phil Cousineau

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