Become A Hero Quotes

#1. You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

Melissa Marr

#2. And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

#3. He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.

Cassandra Clare

#4. You don't become a hero by choosing to become a hero. You become a hero by becoming an example, by being an example for what's possible, for being an example for one person.

John Assaraf

#5. I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

Brie Larson

#6. You have to do bad things in order to become a hero. You have to make sacrifices.

John Barrowman

#7. Did you think that if you created a fairy tale and made all of us play along, made me defeat a monster and become a hero ... you'd have a happy ending, like a princess in a hayloft story?

April Genevieve Tucholke

#8. If a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Marilyn Manson

#10. You will never become a hero if you keep waiting for someone else to bring a cape for you.

Akshay Vasu

#11. The stories didn't seem to care who he was or what he could do; it didn't matter. In their world, he wasn't alone. In their world, a freak like him - like him - could become a hero.

Estevan Vega

#12. When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke.

Nora Ephron

#13. When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

John F. Kennedy

#14. The novel has become the leading hero in the drama of literary development in our time precisely because it best of all reflects the tendencies of a new world still in the making; it is, after all, the only genre born of this new world and in total affinity with it.

Mikhail Bakhtin

#15. Mugabe's become a disgrace to Africa. And I must say this because I am an African and a lot of us looked up to him back in the 1980s when he was the liberation hero. But he's now turned himself into a murderous despot.

George Ayittey

#16. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

J.M. Coetzee

#17. Unlike novels with a hero or two heroines, in 'One Amazing Thing,' all the characters tell stories they've never told anyone before, so all the voices become equally important.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#18. You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villian.

Harvey Dent

#19. Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

Josephine Angelini

#20. Sometimes, to become a villian is more important for being a hero.

Amit Garg

#21. In Greek mythology, the hero wants to be great, but the very concept does not exist in the Indian vocabulary. Yet it has become the global template. And it's a template that won't fit in India.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#22. So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he'll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have attained on his own.

Bryan M. Litfin

#23. Every country that aspires to become a nation needs its heroes, its eminent civic and moral leaders, and if it doesn't have them, it's our duty to invent them.

Rosario Ferre

#24. You've got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It's instinctual, it's something that you may not even realize is there.

Robert Glasper

#25. A resolute leader who collects ten thousand adventurers about him can do as he pleases. Were the whole world a single Imperium, it would thereby become merely the maximum conceivable field for the exploits of such conquering heroes.

Oswald Spengler

#26. If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

Jay Perry

#27. He moved so our noses touched. "I'm a human who can become a wolf. Smell is really important to me, and you, Rachel Clancy, smell like mine.

Rebecca Royce

#28. 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

#29. I yawned awake ready to blow stuff up like a 90s action-star. I'd become what I despised, a misguided schmuck following the status-quo for the sole purpose of fitting in. Whatever... gunrunners, terrorists, bankers, dictators, goons; we all have it coming.

Bruce Crown

#30. He was determined to save her, to be her hero, to give her a reason why the gods had seen fit to place him inside her visions. Gods, he wanted to rescue her. After all, she had rescued him; she had become his heroine a long time ago, before his death became imminent.

Madison Thorne Grey

#31. If you have not been a villain at a certain point in time, you will never be a hero. And the day you are a hero, you may become a villain the next day.

Carlos Ghosn

#32. Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

Patricia Hewitt

#33. You're demanding fidelity, and I'll give you that. But if I intended to be celibate, I would've become a priest.

Naima Simone

#34. Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.

Khaled Hosseini

#35. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.

Josephine Angelini

#36. One of the most depressing features of the ethical side of the matter is that instead of such methods arousing contempt they are more or less openly admired. And this is logical. Canonise 'business success,' and men who made a success like that of the Standard Oil Trust become national heroes!

Ida Tarbell

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. A few days later we went to the opera together to watch my beloved Siegfried. It was a pleasure for me to listen to it beside the man who had become my hero.

Andre Maurois

#40. 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

#41. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

David Richo

#42. 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

#43. Normally it's the tortured who turn the tables on the unsuspecting and become the torturers. Tortured or not, you've got talent in this area. No wonder you're a Dom.
Jaxx Gavin to her hero Aries Taylor in Stare Me Dwon

Riley Murphy

#44. 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

#45. I was lucky to have the right heroes. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be. The qualities of the one you admire are the traits that you, with a little practice, can make your own, and that, if practiced, will become habit forming.

Warren Buffett

#46. 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

#47. Anyone who remembered the grim, gun-toting, thug-murdering Batman of 1939 could see that he'd become a fundamentally different guy: a grinning, lantern-jawed, wisecracking adventure hero who'd left that emo "creature of the night" shtick far behind.

Glen Weldon

#48. Either you die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain.

Christopher J. Nolan

#49. I didn't ask to be a hero, but I guess I have become one in the Christian community. So I accept it. But if I'm wrong about this, I guess I'll become a bum.

Hal Lindsey

#50. My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

David Soul

#51. It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to stay.
For better, or for worse.

Alan Moore

#52. Every teenager is both a hero and a failure. When we become adults we have to choose where in the middle we'll be.

Miguel Syjuco

#53. When you struggle hard and lose money, you're a hero. When you start making money you become a capitalist swine.

Terence Conran

#54. The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes.

Carl Jung

#55. Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

Harvey Dent

#56. Sport is a passion and out of passion comes love. No point trying to work out why some become heroes and others don't. The chosen ones just go into the pantheon and refuse to fade. Think of Bradman and Les Darcy, Phar Lap and Tommy Corrigan.

Les Carlyon