Top 100 A Hero Is Quotes
#1. We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.
Thomas Wolfe
#2. A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.
Tom Hanks
Tom Hanks
#3. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.
Keely Barton
#4. As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
Alan Moore
#5. A hero is just somebody who does the right thing when it would be far, far easier to do nothing.
-Cedric Diggory-
G. Norman Lippert
#6. A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley
#8. A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Mitchell Zuckoff
#9. Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision.
Norman Mailer
#10. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.
Ingibjorg N. Frid
#11. What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
Christopher Reeve
#12. A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
Lester Bangs
#13. A hero is not know by the number of battles he has won, but rather by the kind of battles he chooses to fight.
Tonny K. Brown
#14. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
#15. Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.
Leon Bloy
#16. I think even a hero is someone who has sort of the flaw or imperfection of character. I remember Alice Walker saying that once - she'd written a novel about a civil rights hero, and it was someone who had this flaw, this central flaw.
Hector Tobar
#17. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?
David Benioff
#18. A hero is not measured by the lives that he has saved. A hero is measured by the number of the dead that he did not join.
Robert J.A. Gilbert
#19. A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
Sigmund Freud
#21. Lir said, "It is my right. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last." But Schmendrick answered, "This is not the end, either for you or for her.
Peter S. Beagle
#22. A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve
#23. A hero is defined by what he or she can do, not by what he or she cannot do.
Damon Throop
#24. A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis
#25. Many people stimulate that good serotonin feeling by trying to rescue others. Feeling like a hero is a reliable way to stimulate your serotonin. But the good feeling soon passes and you have to rescue again. Sometimes rescuers reward bad behavior in others because they are so eager to rescue.
Loretta Graziano Breuning
#26. A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas."
-Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)
Ted Bell
#27. The battered idealist. It's just my favorite character ... To me, a hero is somebody who is able to accept the environment of the world, deal with the stuff that's thrown in their path ... and somehow keep their heart.
Cameron Crowe
#28. A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
Christopher Reeve
#29. A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#30. If he thought investing his time could help a person, he did it. That to me is what a hero is all about. To me, that's as big a hero as you can be.
Chris Kyle
#31. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them.
Brandon Mull
#32. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Quinn Loftis
#33. a quotation from the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset as an epigraph for Stoner: "A hero is one who wants to be himself." In
John Williams
#34. A hero is no braver than an ordinary woman, but she is brave five minutes longer. (That's me piggybacking on Emerson.)
Camille Perri
#35. being a hero is not all its cracked up to be." - Conor Kelly
Ali Isaac
#36. A hero is just somebody who tries to do the right thing even when it's hard.
There are more of us than you think.
G. Willow Wilson
#37. Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.
Sarah Cross
#38. Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.
Melanie Rawn
#39. Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.
David Kendall
#40. A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.
Leon Leyson
#41. The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.
Kyle Chandler
#42. A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar
#43. A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.
Christopher Reeve
#44. A hero is not a hero because of their courage, but because of the courage they give to others.
Paul Clayton Gibbs
#45. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.
Will Rogers
#46. The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.
Charlie Human
#47. I realized that the job of a hero is not to save the galaxy, or rescue princesses, or slay all the dragons. That may be part of it, but in the end, a hero only has one job, and that's to make himself unnecessary.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#48. I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
Tom Hanks
#49. I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.
Maya Angelou
#50. A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.
Raymond E. Feist
#51. So the difference between a criminal and a hero is the order in which their vile crimes are committed. And justice comes with a sell-by date. In that case, you'd better hurry. You wouldn't want your heroism to spoil.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#53. Acts of heroism are easy - becoming a hero is a bitch.
Adam Johnson
#54. In the game of cricket, a hero is a person who respects the game and does not corrupt the game. The one who doesn't or corrupts the game, they are the villain. They should be punished, and they have been punished in the past.
Virat Kohli
#55. To be a hero is honourable; not to be one is not necessarily dishonourable.
Philippe Burrin
#56. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
Romain Rolland
#58. I know heroes exist because i'm my little brother's hero. It isn't easy, it's not always fun, it's full of hard choices, and sometimes you have to put yourself second to help the people you love. But being a hero is a choice
Chris Colfer
#60. Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.
Amit Kalantri
#61. The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Peter H. Reynolds
#62. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Ricky Martin
#63. In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
George Jean Nathan
#64. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.
Werner Erhard
#65. 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
Gerard Way
#66. A hero is someone who stands in the community and speaks their hopes and speaks their passion. That's almost an act of heroism nowadays because higher consciousness is so trivialized.
Marianne Williamson
#68. He helps me every day to do my exercises. Siegfried told me once, 'The one who is a hero is the one who can hang on just one minute longer.'
Roy Horn
#69. If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.
Lev Grossman
#70. I understand, now, that your own identity, your past, has nothing to do with the way others see you. Being a hero isn't about someone else's definition. Not Abigail's and not Constance's. Not the Post's. Not even Claire's. Being a hero is about one thing: the way you see yourself.
Rebecca Serle
#71. The sun rises in the east every morning and falls in the west, Ayden. Darknesses are awaken and fate is tested, destinies are foreseen. Thy soul the only enemy, a hero is born. A new light rises once again ...
Nadege Richards
#72. A hero is someone who over and over does the right thing even though no one is there to witness it.
Bob Kerrey
#73. For a hero is someone who is selfless. Think about it, friends. Superman, Luke Skywalker, and Captain America. They are helping others. They aren't only thinking for themselves. They are reaching out beyond themselves.
Mark Andrew Poe
#74. The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon
#75. a hero is someone who is hanging on one more minute and making the world a better place
Samuel Cole
#76. Do you know the difference between a hero and a martyr?" Quentin shook his head. "A hero is alive," Father Harry said. "A martyr is not.
Scott Sigler
#77. A hero is not a champion of things become, but of things becoming; the dragon to be slain by him is precisely the monster of the status quo.
Joseph Campbell
#78. I think a hero is someone who, if abroad or traveling, they go to the GOOP website to see what shops to go to, what restaurants to eat at, what clothes to buy, and they do that not fearlessly but in spite of their fear.
Robert Downey Jr.
#79. Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Thomas Carlyle
#80. A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
James Marcus Bach
#81. A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.
Debasish Mridha
#82. A hero is entitled to his happy ending, when it comes at last.
Peter S. Beagle
#83. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
#84. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#85. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#86. I would ask: Given the nature of free-market capitalism - where the rule is to rise to the top at all costs - is it possible to have a financial industry hero? And by the way, this is not a pop-culture trend we're talking about. There aren't many financial heroes in literature, theater or cinema.
Martin Scorsese
#87. The practice of perseverance is the discipline of the noblest virtues. To run well, we must run to the end. It is not the fighting but the' conquering that gives a hero his title to renown.
Elias Lyman Magoon
#88. Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
Andrew Vachss
#89. You will never get the truth out of a Narcissist. The closest you will ever come is a story that either makes them the victim or the hero, but never the villain.
Shannon L. Alder
#90. 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 heroes I just want to be a man.
Bei Dao
#91. We've become slaves to words like 'local,' 'fresh,' and 'seasonal.' We all want to be Thomas Jefferson's agrarian hero, but sustainable food is a difficult beast.
Barton Seaver
#92. When I was a kid, Jacques Cousteau was my hero and the person who inspired me to become an underwater explorer. I have many other people who inspired me after him, but he is still my all-time hero.
Enric Sala
#93. The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and confronts rather than rejecting reality regardless of the personal cost.
Jason Dias
#94. The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#95. In books, often the bad guys have a story too, and sometimes it is just as tragic as the hero's.
Jennifer Megan Varnadore
#96. When we see a hero, on the one hand, we applaud them; on the other hand, there is something in a lot of people that wants to tear the hero down.
Frederick Lenz
#97. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.
Auliq Ice
#98. Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
Alan Barth
#99. Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.
RuPaul
#100. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.
Sharon Robinson
