Inspiring Hero Quotes

#1. Every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Tom Hiddleston

#2. I think the idea of a heightened reality and then the fantasy that we're able to be swept up in, and then these larger than life heroes and the possibility of someone much more powerful than we are and greater that can come and save the day, so to speak, is inspiring.

Chris Hemsworth

#3. There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#4. The Futures Bright, Wear Your Sunglasses

Ian Somerhalder

#5. The American's literature is all about being hot and sexy, inspiring a girl and going to bed with her. It focuses on being a hero, saving lives and surviving last, but it has nothing to do with dignity, serenity.

M.F. Moonzajer

#6. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?

Jeanette Winterson

#7. The hero's journey is simply who we are as human beings ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#8. We can't let the next generation grow up without heroes. Some of us have to fight on!

Avijeet Das

#9. The most interesting - in fact, inspiring - people I met there [Porto Alegre] are those who remain nameless: representatives of the international campesino movement, the East Timorese delegation, ... - the usual heroes, who disappear, unknown, apart from the consequences of their work.

Noam Chomsky

#10. Boileau said that Kings, Gods and Heroes only were fit subjects for literature. The writer can only write about what he admires. Present-day kings aren't very inspiring, the gods are on a vacation and about the only heroes left are the scientists and the poor.

John Steinbeck