Top 100 Hero Quotes
#1. A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.
Debasish Mridha
#2. The canker of self-consciousness has been long in me, so like a lot of writers I not only do a thing, I see myself doing it too - it's almost like not being alone. That morning our hero skipped in his skivvies down to the shore of the sea . . . it was dark . . . the fog . . . Storytelling!
Charles D'Ambrosio
#3. 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
#5. The 1986 tax act is sort of the unsung hero of the very good economic times we had for a long time. Of course, politics gums it all up again and preferences get put in.
George P. Shultz
#6. In his dreams he would be a hero. In his life he felt like a zero.
David Walliams
#7. My Mt. Rushmore of hero worship would include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Marcus Aurelius, Frank Sinatra and Barry White.
Karen Duffy
#8. Rose, I'm an addict with no work ethic who is likely going to go insane. I'm not like you. I'm not a super-hero."
"Not yet," I said.
Richelle Mead
#9. One need not fight every battle, or die in the struggle, to be a hero.
Richard Paul Evans
#10. I want to be an art-hero - I want to change the form of the novel.
Jeanette Winterson
#11. If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
Steve Guttenberg
#12. What is a hero without his name?
-The Penitent God
S.G. Night
#13. He is coming! He is coming! Like a bridegroom from his room, Came the hero from his prison To the scaffold and the doom.
William Edmondstoune Aytoun
#14. 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.
#15. Captain Future!" Ezra's faded eyes were agleam with hero worship. "The greatest feat of space pilotin' in history! No one else in the universe would even have tried it!
Edmond Hamilton
#16. Dirk Nowitzki has been my hero for many years.
Flula Borg
#17. You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#18. I know Rick [Monday] has done a lot of good things as a player and as a person. But what he did for his country, he will be remembered for the rest of his life as an American hero.
Manny Mota
#19. I look at my sons' little faces, and I want to be their superhero. I don't want them to have to look outside to a third party for a hero, for someone to look up to and admire. I want that to be ME. I want that person to be MOMMY for them.
Lashinda Demus
#20. My sister is bold, independent, and not afraid to wear overalls. Some of her first words as a child were "that's not fair," and she's been committed to social justice ever since. She's my hero.
Lena Dunham
#21. An adult western is where the hero still kisses his horse at the end, only now he worries about it.
Milton Berle
#22. Go. Do what you have to do. Be the hero that you are ... but come back to me. There's more to Noah McCall than the head of Last Chance Rescue. I see that man. ... I love them both. Return to me, Noah. Please. - Mara to Noah
Christy Reece
#23. Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.
Anton Du Beke
#24. Everyone who has any familiarity with psychology knows about the danger of disowning the murderer within. Far fewer people understand the tragedy of disowning the hero within.
Nathaniel Branden
#25. If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
Steve Maraboli
#26. A good story is always a journey. It is about taking the journey, the people the hero meets along the way and how they change him or her. All stories are journeys. They don't have to be shocking or outrageous: they simply have to be interesting.
Michael Scott
#27. She's my hero. Everything good and decent that I am is because of my mother.
Katie Ashley
#28. The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive
Joseph Campbell
#29. Take this. It's one of my gothics. The seventies were, sadly, not the time to include sex scenes of any satisfying nature. When the lights go out, you can imagine the hero and heroine are lying in bed, fully clothed, making shadow puppets on the wall.
Kelley Armstrong
#30. De Niro was a hero of mine. And Sean Penn. But I've realized I can't operate at that level of intensity. That's okay for movies. On TV, when you live with horror day in and day out, you have to protect yourself.
Christopher Meloni
#31. I write novels with a lawyer as the hero, no matter how oxymoronic that might sound.
William Lashner
#32. Hero Ride gives everyone the opportunity to get involved with an incredible charity, and the beauty of this challenge is that you can set the boundaries: whether you can manage 10 miles or 100 miles on the ride to Blackheath, Hero Ride is for everyone.
Peta Todd
#33. I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it's really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.
Sandra Oh
#34. That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit.
John Lennon
#35. Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
Kevin Bacon
#37. 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
#38. ...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about a workable consensus between the diverse people is truly a hero. Such a man has to be a true disciple of peace, unity, solidarity and justice.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#40. 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
#41. Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.
Thomas Carlyle
#42. My favorite book is anything by Kurt Vonnegut - he's my literary hero. I got to meet him several times, which was a great thrill for me. I don't really remember what we talked about.
Steven Wright
#43. I was only a hero by default. The flights were few and far between. There weren't that many astronauts. The moon flights were so interesting and exciting.
Jim Lovell
#44. Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win.
Sarah C. Yung
#45. Hitler's historical hero had always been Frederick the Great. [Later], under Goebbels' prompting ... Napoleon emerged ... as his model ... Frederick the Great was a man who knew when to stop [and] Napoleon did not.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
#46. What I love about 'Big Hero 6', with Baymax himself - this sentient creature who's actually a learning robot - with each experience, this naive and gullible creature becomes more aware of issues.
Roy Conli
#47. You don't have to slay a dragon to be perceived a hero - smiling at someone at the right moment might also do the trick.
Jury Nel
#48. Julian Assange is certainly no hero. The man behind WikiLeaks issued threats as if he were Dr. No bent on ending civilization as we know it. We will find him, lock him up, and throw away the key. But give the man credit; for a week the truth was laid bare.
Martin Cruz Smith
#49. The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
Heather James
#50. Are you a hero, actually?"
"Um, no. Not as such. Not at all, really. Even less than that, in fact.
Terry Pratchett
#51. Meanwhile, news has been leaked to the press that the Hero of Drummond Street will be pictured on the cover of a national magazine, nude.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#52. My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
Walter Mosley
#53. He recognized me. Not as other people would, not as a budding hero out of stories. Tapis had no time for such things. He remembered me as the smudgy, starveling boy who fell down his stairs fever-sick and crying one winter night. You could say I loved him even more for that.
Patrick Rothfuss
#54. The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
Amit Kalantri
#55. Luke gazed at Annabeth. "You knew. I almost killed you, but you knew ... "
"Shhh." Her voice trembled. "You were a hero at the end, Luke.
Rick Riordan
#56. In Durban, where I was born and grew up, and all over Africa, Nelson Mandela was a hero! Now he is a hero to the world.
Kumi Naidoo
#57. She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like a hero in that kind of snow.
Kaya McLaren
#58. I saw 'Six Degrees of Separation' because my brother was in it. It was a watershed experience. It was theatrical and scary, and New York functioned like a character. John Guare became a hero for me.
Adam Rapp
#59. The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
Frank Miller
#60. Love, to the inferior man, remains almost wholly a physical matter. The heroine he most admires is the one who offers the grossest sexual provocation; the hero who makes his wife roll her eyes is a perambulating phallus.
H.L. Mencken
#61. In my world, the hero always defeats the villain, the boy always gets the girl, and cancer is no more,
Laura Ziskin
#62. [Nathan] wasn't blindly obsessed with a possession. He wasn't crazy. He was a hero
a father who'd risked his life to rescue his son.
Randy Alcorn
#63. All hero's are born out of the embers that linger after the fire of great tragedy.
Children of Ankh series
Kim Cormack
#64. A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.
James Marcus Bach
#65. I once learned, a long time ago, to get what you want, to have all the power, to be the hero and the good guy, you have to make everyone else look like the bad guy.
Angela Richardson
#66. The notion of the hero as outsider, as alien, is forget it, over, done with. It's not about being against society anymore. It's about standing there, holding something up. It's not pulling away.
Twyla Tharp
#68. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
#69. I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible ... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.
Barbara Broccoli
#70. The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.
Aesop
#71. I'm not sure I'll ever fully understand why some Christians get mad when we say that the ultimate hero in the Bible is not Noah, Abraham, Moses, David, Paul, etc ... but Jesus.
Tullian Tchividjian
#72. Working on a movie like 'Prince of Persia' was awesome. It was great fun to be an action hero and to jump around, running off walls and fighting and having great quippy lines.
Jake Gyllenhaal
#73. The ceiling was a mural showing some ancient hero making a deal with a two-faced celestial being.
Brian McClellan
#75. Love always makes those eloquent that have it.
---From "Hero and Leander, Sestiad II
Christopher Marlowe
#76. 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
#77. If manners maketh the man as someone said, then he's the hero of the day.
Sting
#78. The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.
Oscar Wilde
#79. Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished yourself in some way.
Jim Bouton
#80. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
Mike Rowe
#81. The hero is the world-man, in whose heart One passion stands for all, the most indulged.
Philip James Bailey
#82. If everyone is a hero, then disasters and atrocities lose their meaning. It's only when certain people are heroes and others are not that these tragedies and disasters that mankind faces take on meaning.
Gao Xingjian
#84. The hero reveals the possibilities of human nature; the celebrity reveals the possibilities of the media.
Daniel J. Boorstin
#85. Fortunately the bad guys had the tactical intelligence of a waffle iron, so the hero was able to outsmart them by ducking behind some rocks, then putting his hat on a stick and holding it
Dave Barry
#87. I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#88. The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
Carlos Santana
#89. You aren't a hero and I'm not beautiful and we probably won't live happily ever after " she said. "But we're alive and together and we're going to be all right.
Philip Reeve
#90. Finally he turned his head toward her face and brushed a kiss over her cheek. I love you and I believe with all my heart that you love me as well. Why can't you say it, Hero?
Elizabeth Hoyt
#91. DEDICATED TO YOU:
Good and bad have never been more relative terms than when applied to the likes of you.
But I agree with her. To me, you have always been a hero.
J.R. Ward
#92. I like to have a hero a little underpowered. I mean, Spiderman is far cooler than Superman. How do you challenge Superman?
Patricia Briggs
#93. I'm not gay, but I don't think you have to be gay to have a gay hero. Growing up, Alan Turing was certainly mine. I'm also not the greatest mathematician of my generation. We have lots of biographical differences, but nonetheless, I always identified with him so much.
Graham Moore
#94. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Ryan Giggs
#95. Look, we're in the time of the anti-hero.
Dean Norris
#96. DANCER ELIAS GARRICK
"NEVER THE SIDEKICK, ALWAYS THE HERO. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE SLIPSTREAM.
Karen Marie Moning
#97. Being a hero doesn't mean you're invincible. It just means that you're brave enough to stand up and do what's needed.
And if I don't know what's needed?
That's what your friends are for. We've all got different strengths. Together, we'll figure it out.
Rick Riordan
#98. I think, generally, the flawed anti-hero is much more interesting than the normal hero, and that's really what we're talking about here as it relates to outlaws or renegades.
Tod Goldberg
#99. ...it is not the victory but why a man fights the battle which makes him a hero.
Kate speaking to Callum in LAIRD OF THE MIST
Paula Quinn
#100. Yeah," Chris said. "I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I'm a hero.
James S.A. Corey
