Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

My dream role is to portray someone like James Baldwin. I've always been a fan of his writing, and I feel like he's one of… — Michael K. Williams
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the slow falling away… — John Ralston Saul
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them. — William Manchester
The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more… — Irwin Edman
We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think. — Nizar Qabbani
Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without… — Bei Dao
It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you… — Glenn Ford
To have one's own story told by a third party who doesn't know that the character in question is himself the hero of the story… — Raymond Queneau
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water… — Dan Simmons
There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate. — George Eliot
Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore… — Ken Kesey
Heroes don't get anything but dead. — Laurell K. Hamilton
If there's one thing I can't stand it's a hero without a cause. People like that just make trouble so that they can solve it. — Jeanette Winterson
The pulp hero, though he may be a renegade, is a guy who doesn't feel. Anything. Ever. And for the adolescent male - pummeled by… — Samuel R. Delany
In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources. — Brian Herbert
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty,… — Bernard Beckett
Count me o'er earth's chosen heroes, - they were souls that stood alone, While the men they agonized for hurled the contumelious stone, Stood serene,… — James Russell Lowell
Fate does not invite ugly boring people to save the world; and if you do try to save the world (without being beautiful, strong, clever,… — James Alan Gardner
There used to be a time when the idea of heroes was important. People grew up sharing those myths and legends and ideals. Now they… — Bob Dylan
Our nation is indeed fortunate that we can still draw on an immense reservoir of courage, character, and fortitude, that we are still blessed with… — Ronald Reagan
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make… — Tom McCall
America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built… — Simon Hoggart
I'm very bad at having heroes. I don't rate anyone particularly highly because I'm so snide and competitive and not very nice. — Jenny Eclair
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people… — Naguib Mahfouz

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