Hero Quotes

2488 Hero quotes by 1701 unique authors

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced. — Ned Rorem
There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community — David Riesman
He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and… — Aminu Kano
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
Within the Arab circle there is a role wandering aimlessly in search of a hero. For some reason it seems to me that this role… — Gamal Abdel Nasser
Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose… — Jonathan Sacks
But in the hero ne'er forget the man. — Mercy Otis Warren
Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal… — Carson McCullers
I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful… — Barbara Mertz
I am the hero of Africa. — Idi Amin
The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow. — Charles Olson
In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a… — Daniel Dennett
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us… — Gale Sayers
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. — Brooke Westcott
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but… — Chester Brown
This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people. — Jet Li
Proust is a hero of mine. I read 'A la recherche' in one go, and I'm a very slow reader. It had an astonishing impact,… — Edward St Aubyn
When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out… — Andrew Coyle Bradley
But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes. — David Baldacci
One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think. — Ed Belfour
I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real… — Elizabeth Banks
Lula da Silva was my hero when he was president. I Googled him so many times. The fact that he got 20 million people out… — Joyce Banda
The liberal feminist movement never imagined that women would take seriously the encouragement to become our own heroes and claim life for ourselves, on our… — Tammy Bruce
You can't think that you're playing a villain, or you'll end up with a cartoon. You have to think about him as a person and… — Tom Berenger
I actually got to write with one of my musical heroes, a guy named Raine Maida from Our Lady Peace. I got to sit down… — David Cook

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