Be A Hero 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. I'd love to play Neil Kinnock. Because of my ginger hair, I thought that was a possibility. He's a hero and a villain in most people's eyes, but I'd like to do that, I think I'd be right for it.

Jason Flemyng

#3. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.

Scott Snyder

#4. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.

Pablo Neruda

#5. I always wanted to be a hero
to sacrifice my life in a big way one time
and yet, God has required my sacrifice to be thousands of days, over many years, with one more kiss, one more story, one more meal.

Sally Clarkson

#6. Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.

J. August Richards

#7. My point is there will always be vile men, just as there will always be men of kindness and compassion ... This world is a troubled, savage, place. It would, however, even be more ghastly if only evil men took time to master weapons. - Waylander from the book Hero in the Shadows by David Gemmell

David Gemmell

#8. 'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

Jeff Cooper

#9. I've always felt a kinship with Willy Wonka. Even at that age, I could tell that he was a flawed hero, an icon for the forbidden. The forbidden in this case was chocolate, a metaphor for indulgence and anything you're not supposed to have, be it sex, drugs, alcohol or pornography.

Marilyn Manson

#10. You don't have to be larger than life to be a hero, just larger than yourself.

Mitt Romney

#11. A girl could be born rich. But nobody was born a hero.

Suzanne Stroh

#12. Nelson's famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: "England expects that every man will be a hero." It said: "Englandexpects that every man will do his duty." In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.

Johan Huizinga

#13. I think if I were a superhero saving the world, I'd expect at least not to have to pay income taxes. I mean there should be something in it for a hero who risks his life to save mankind every day.

Stan Lee

#14. A susceptible child is capable of great hero worship, and a young mind can easily be obsessed by an idea which persists into adult life.

Agatha Christie

#15. It is a common failing of childhood to think that if one makes a hero out of a demon the demon will be satisfied.

Yukio Mishima

#16. You have to be brave and not always play likeable people. It's difficult, because there's a demand for the hero or heroine to be very likeable.

Felicity Jones

#17. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

Kieran Bew

#18. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

Shannon L. Alder

#19. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.

Keely Barton

#20. Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.

Bradley Whitford

#21. And so Galahad decided that it would be a disgrace to set off on a quest with the other knights. Alone he would enter the dark forest where there was no path. This is the myth of The Hero's Journey.

Joseph Campbell

#22. 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

#23. Maybe I'm not the hero to her I've always tried so hard to be, because right now, I feel as if she doesn't even need a hero. Why would she? She has someone so much stronger than I'll ever be for her. She has herself.

Colleen Hoover

#24. I grew up in the North of England at a time when Stirling Moss was a hero. Everyone wanted to be a racing driver.

Ridley Scott

#25. When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.

Scott Herman

#26. 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

#27. If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!

Stephen E. Ambrose

#28. Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#29. I thought, 'Oh, this is great,' because maybe someone who does look like me will watch 'Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.' and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

J. August Richards

#30. He looked like every hero in every fairy tale I'd ever dreamed come to life. And, God, I wanted to believe in heroes again. But sometimes, I supposed, a girl just had to be her own hero.

Mia Sheridan

#31. 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

#32. All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged
after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#33. 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

#34. Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!

Eugene O'Neill

#35. I wanted to be a pariah, because all my heroes were cult artists, people who devoted their lives to poking into very narrow, very deep corners - Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, Malcolm Lowry - people who suffered in order to express their vision of life.

Jim Woodring

#36. Fearless for oneself, fear for others - that must be what it means to be a hero.

Neal Stephenson

#37. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.

Paul Tudor Jones

#38. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others
even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are. page 202

Jim Butcher

#39. Admiral Nelson, also, on a capstan of gun-metal, stands his mast-head in Trafalgar Square; and even when most obscured by that London smoke, token is yet given that a hidden hero is there; for where there is smoke, must be fire.

Herman Melville

#40. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

Clarice Lispector

#41. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan

Allan Heinberg

#42. The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act.

Mike Alsford

#43. Can't be a hero if you're afraid of looking stupid.

L.D. Harkrader

#44. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.

Bradley Whitford

#45. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?

Richard Bachman

#46. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#47. There is a hate layer of opinion and emotion in America. There will be other McCarthys to come who will be hailed as its heroes.

Max Lerner

#48. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing

David Hasselhoff

#49. It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

Jodi Picoult

#50. It's very uncomfortable to be a hero, Joel, and you don't have the figure for it.

Ayn Rand

#51. You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.

Lowell Bergman

#52. I'm a chamaleon, ever-changing, always evolving, and eager for the next phase of metamorphosis. This is me, imperfections, inconsistencies, passion, and desires. I make myself happen, because if I didn't you can be damned sure nobody else would.

Sai Marie Johnson

#53. The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

John Adams

#54. I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

Ozzy Osbourne

#55. I wanted him to be ruthless, I wanted him to be fearless, I wanted him to take the biggest risk possible for me and be a hero.

Angela Richardson

#56. You might be a hero. I say might because the choice is ultimately yours

Lisa Bevere

#57. Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life.

Elizabeth Parker

#58. A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

C.J. Cherryh

#59. The characters I tend to play are a little more interesting than the standard heroes. Romantic leads can be a little more straightforward, I guess. But it just seems to be the parts I get, I don't know what that says about me. I enjoy interesting characters and interesting people, I suppose.

Iwan Rheon

#60. Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.

Orson Scott Card

#61. I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.

Matthew Settle

#62. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#63. Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#64. We're all the heroes of our own stories. So, when I am inside the head of a character who would otherwise be considered a villain, I have a great deal of affection for that character and I'm trying to see the world and the events through their eyes.

George R R Martin

#65. I wanted to be a hero, but there aren't any heroes out here, are there?

Kit Rocha

#66. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest

Beth Moore

#67. Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#68. Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

George A. Sheehan

#69. Somebody once told me that a hero's bravery has to be unplanned - a genuine response to a crisis. It has to come from the heart, without any thought of reward.

Rick Riordan

#70. It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

Herodotus

#71. You're a damn dog," Adam finally snapped.
"If you're good enough to fuck someone, be a man enough to take responsibility for the result

Suzanne Enoch

#72. I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

William Monahan

#73. I'll tell you what time it is. It is time to be a hero.

Mark Andrew Poe

#74. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi

#75. If you need inspiration, look into the eyes of people as you walk by them. They are looking for a hero; that person may be you.

Robert J. Braathe

#76. What people would like is that a coward or a hero be born that way.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#77. (Celeste) Be the hero, Matty. Come on. You're supposed to be the hero now. The romatic lead."
"I know that, too," he said. Matt did not hesitate a moment longer. "Julie, I love you. I absolutely love you.

Jessica Park

#78. But Clary's a hero at heart- and that means she'll find a way to be the hero she needs to be, to look beyond the skills she doesn't have and draw on the skills she does have to ultimately save the day.

Sarah Cross

#79. Herger said to me, "Be thankful, for you are fortunate."
I inquired the source of my fortune. Herger said in reply, "If you have the fear of high places, than this day you shall overcome it; and so you shall have faced a great challenge; and so you shall be adjudged a hero.

Michael Crichton

#80. It is good to be willing to stand as a hero, but you must also be willing to fall as a hero

Luke Edison

#81. Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

E.W. Howe

#82. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.

Noah Hawley

#83. Kinda ' makes it hard to be a super hero when you ain't got nothin' to work wit', ain't it?

Randolph Randy Camp

#84. If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

#85. Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.

Farshad Asl

#86. 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

#87. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.

Harvey Pekar

#88. We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify.

Maya Angelou

#89. I don't think I will get married," Polly said as she stood up. "I'm going to train to be a hero instead.

Diana Wynne Jones

#90. You would think that a man who's spent as much time in the theater as I have would know when the proper time came for the hero to die-if he was to be a hero. I missed my cue for the great suicide scene

Kurt Vonnegut

#91. My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

Marie Osmond

#92. A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.

Thomas Carlyle

#93. On the golf course, a man may be the dogged victim of inexorable fate, be struck down by an appalling stroke of tragedy, become the hero of unbelievable melodrama, or the clown in a side-splitting comedy.

Bobby Jones

#94. The best thing I ever did in life was nothing, and I got a medal for it. I was a hero once. And if you look at my picture, that's all I'll ever be. Minutes

Hugh Howey

#95. Magnus tells me I was a hero. And I see on your face when you're looking at me that you're searching for that guy. The guy you knew who was a hero, who did great things. I don't remember doing those things. I don't know if that makes me not a hero anymore. But I'd like to try to be that guy again.

Cassandra Clare

#96. I've always said a romance hero can be deeply flawed ... as long as he's willing to rush into a burning building to rescue a basket of kittens.

Teresa Medeiros

#97. Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

Christopher Healy

#98. You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

Merton Miller

#99. The men I write can be intense, quiet, outspoken and outrageous, deadly or fun ... but I would never waste time on a hero who wasn't honorable, who didn't protect those who couldn't protect themselves, who didn't value children and pets, who wasn't independent and unselfish.

Lori Foster

#100. If you were truly 'here for me,' you would have a Kahlua in one hand and Henry Cavill's number in the other. Since I'm not having drunken phone sex with Superman, there must be another reason you're darkening my living room.

Naima Simone