Top 100 Our Heroes Quotes
#1. Heroes aren't supposed to do bad things. That's what villains are for. So either the good supersedes the bad, or the bad makes it impossible to remember the good. We don't like it when such duality exists in one person. We don't want to know our heroes are human.
LZ Granderson
#2. In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.
Daniel Dennett
#4. Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.
Veronica Roth
#5. Great things are accomplished by men who are not conscious of the impotence of man. Such insensitiveness is precious. But we must admit that criminals are not unlike our heroes in this respect.
Paul Valery
#6. In ancient days, men looked at stars and saw their heroes in the constellations. In modern times, we do much the same, but our heroes are epic men (and women) of flesh and blood.
Richard M. Nixon
#8. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.
Willie Nelson
#9. We would make our heroes shallow ... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.
Anne Rice
#10. We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Walton Goggins
#11. Heroes inspire us for many reasons: they make tough decisions, they keep going and they get done what matters. But there's another reason we love our heroes. Inside us all, we know we have the power to become one ourselves.
Oliver
#12. Do I understand, sir, that you mean the Cause for which our heroes have died is not sacred?'
If you were run over by a railroad train your death wouldn't sanctify the railroad company, would it?' asked Rhett and his voice sounded as if he were humbly seeking information.
Margaret Mitchell
#13. We don't destroy our heroes today when we worshipped them yesterday.
Gerard Houllier
#14. A poet, Hephaestion, sings not to narrate human events as they occur, but to make sure that we have the opportunity of living the emotions and the passions of our heroes even at a distance of centuries.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
#15. A wonderful flaw about human beings is that we're incapable of making perfect copies. Our failure to copy our heroes is where we discover where our own thing lives. That is how we evolve.
Austin Kleon
#16. Every time the secret police close in, our heroes are able to "disapparate" - a term that always makes me think of an attempt at English by George W. Bush.
Christopher Hitchens
#17. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
D. J. Enright
#18. Reading gives us the furniture of our minds. Reading can spell the difference between independence and slavery; liberation and isolation. Without reading, our history would have turned out differently. Reading made and shaped our heroes. Reading liberates.
Ambeth R. Ocampo
#19. It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
Alan Hirsch
#20. But there were women in the world, and from them each of our heroes had taken to himself a wife. The good ladies were no strangers to the prowess of their husbands. and, strange as it may seem, they presumed a little upon it.
Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
#21. The wisdom of our ages and the blood of our heroes has been devoted to the attainment of trial by jury. It should be the creed of our political faith.
Thomas Jefferson
#22. Oklahomans value our children and our seniors. Oklahomans value traditions of faith. Oklahomans value our heroes, our veterans. Oklahomans value innovation and the creative arts.
Brad Henry
#23. In a media culture, we not only judge strangers by how they look but by the images of how they look. So we want attractive pictures of our heroes and repulsive images of our enemies.
Virginia Postrel
#24. There will be more calamities, more death, more despair. Not the slightest indication of a change anywhere. The cancer of our time is eating us away. Our heroes have killed themselves, or are killing themselves.
Henry Miller
#26. No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.
Colin Powell
#27. We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing.
Ellen Goodman
#28. Our heroes are fighting to bring stability to the Middle East, and they have put pressure on all of the tyrannies of the Middle East. They have taken a stand against tyranny, against terrorists, and for the prospect of decent societies throughout that region.
Orrin Hatch
#29. Evil is relative - and what I mean by that is that our villains are as complex, as deep and as compelling as any of our heroes. Every antagonist in the DC Universe has a unique darkness, desire and drive. And the reason for being of 'Forever Evil' is to explore that darkness.
Geoff Johns
#30. We willingly enter fictional worlds where we cheer our heroes and cry for friends we never had.
Marco Tempest
#31. The champions of the faith were ordinary people, but how they responded to their trials is what makes them our heroes. Remember this when you face your own trials, because how you respond will impact other people.
Larry Fox
#32. All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure.
Peter Carey
#33. In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice ... we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.
Ravi Zacharias
#34. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.
Jon Krakauer
#35. Thus we try to keep our heroes alive; hence we remember them.
John Irving
#36. Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done.
Russell Means
#37. It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.
Jefferson Davis
#38. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
Baal Shem Tov
#39. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
Mark Twain
#40. Malcolm Gladwell, the author and New Yorker writer, has suggested that as a society we value natural, effortless accomplishment over achievement through effort. We endow our heroes with superhuman abilities that led them inevitably toward their greatness.
Carol S. Dweck
#41. Shame, isn't it? That we only like our heroes out in the street when they are looking their best and their uniforms are 'spit and polished,' and not when they're showing us the wounds they suffered on our behalf.
Jacqueline Winspear
#43. We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
Helen Hayes
#45. Nobody is born with a style or a voice. We don't out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes. We learn by copying.
Austin Kleon
#46. We always find it difficult to forgive our heroes for being human.
Frances Hardinge
#47. All of our heroes did silly stuff early and got more serious as time went on. Steve Martin, Adam Sandler, Bill Murray. They got older, wiser, and made different choices.
Akiva Schaffer
#48. I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.
Kevin Costner
#49. Rock n' roll is our religion, and we will continue to lose disciples as we go, but we pick up the fallen flag and keep moving forward, bringing forth the good news that our heroes have helped create, their bodies lost, but their spirits and their good work everlasting.
Steven Van Zandt
#50. If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.
Harry Crocker
#51. We Americans are hard on almost everything. We are hard on our vehicles, our marriages and our heroes. Mostly, however, we are hard on ourselves.
Henry Rollins
#52. When I was growing up, yearning with my pals to be a track star, one of our heroes was Bruce Jenner. He won a gold medal at the 1976 Olympics in the decathlon, and he adorned our Wheaties boxes. We all wanted to be Bruce Jenner.
Nicholas Kristof
#53. The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.
Leonard Mlodinow
#54. Athletes become our heroes, because they're superhuman. They do things nobody else can do. They're better than 6 billion other people.
Charlie Sheen
#55. Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.
Plato
#57. Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.
Dan Lipinski
#58. Nowadays a gold medal is a $1 million contract. Our athletes are our heroes.
Cathy Rigby
#59. Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.
James Rozoff
#60. We wish our Christian brothers would be honest and permit us our heroes. We do not deny them theirs.
Madalyn Murray O'Hair
#61. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou
#62. The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
Nick Cave
#63. One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
Jim Lee
#64. We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in.
Pushpa Rana
#66. While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.
Kirsten Gillibrand
#67. As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.
Vijender Singh
#68. We love, while knowing that someday our love might be lost forever. We laugh as we stride along, even while recognising that doom lies at the end of the road. We give, while comprehending that in the end 'twill all be taken away. we are nothing less then heroes.
Cecilia Dart-Thornton
#69. We are our own dragons and our own heroes. We must rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Peter S. Beagle
#70. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
#71. What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.
David Lloyd George
#72. Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
Edward Gibbon
#73. 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
#74. There are no heroes in our world. No clear-cut evil either. Everyone involved insists that they're the righteous ones.
Hiroshi Yamamoto
#75. Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations
Rick Riordan
#76. It is in your DNA to love a good story. You know, neat tales with heroes and villains and conflicts to resolve. A good story pushes our buttons, is exciting and memorable.
Barry Ritholtz
#77. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#78. I don't have individuals that are heroes per say but I will suggest that teachers are heroes for me, our firefighters are heroes for me, our police departments are heroes for me and our leaders are heroes for me.
John Assaraf
#79. Without stories, reality would destroy us. She says stories and myths and heroes challenge us to be worthy of a larger reality. To listen to the better angels of our nature. To be more than what we are.
Abigail Strom
#80. We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.
Rahm Emanuel
#81. We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve Binchy
#82. By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.
Sydney Pollack
#83. And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.
Richard Attenborough
#84. Our artistic heroes tend to be those self-exercisers, like Picasso, and Nabokov, and Wallace Stevens, who rather defiantly kept playing past dark.
John Updike
#85. May therefore God give us the strength to continue to do our duty and with this prayer we bow in homage before our dead heroes, before those whom they have left behind in bereavement, and before all the other victims of this war.
Adolf Hitler
#86. Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
Peter Kreeft
#87. Today the children of our public schools are taught more of the history, heroes, legends, and sagas of the old world than of the land of their birth, while they are furnished with little material on the people and institutions that are truly American.
Luther Standing Bear
#88. What separates history from myth is that history takes in the whole picture, whereas myth averts our eyes from the truth when it turns men into heroes and gods.
Nancy Isenberg
#89. I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.
Kevin Benderman
#90. We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.
Justin Alcala
#91. We put on our best clothes and die like heroes.
Leigh Bardugo
#92. The creative person is overpowered, captive of and driven by a demon ... They become our legendary heroes.
Carl Jung
#93. I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!
(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)
Jill A. Boughton
#94. It was only after her death that I realized who she was: the apparently magical force at the center of our family who'd kept us all invisibly spinning in the powerful orbit around her.
Cheryl Strayed
#95. They are heroes, our soldiers, the men and women who go into harm's way to protect us, our way of life. It doesn't matter what you think of the war, your have to be grateful to the warriors, of whom we ask so much. To whom we sometimes give too little.
Kristin Hannah
#96. Some people ask me whether I'm a "mama's girl" or a "papa's girl". I'm *nobody's* girl. My brother clings to our parents; I'm the one shoving them out the door.
Hayden Panettiere
#97. Steve McQueen was from a time when you didn't know every little dirty thing about our public figures. He and James Dean were very mysterious, archetypal American heroes.
Sheryl Crow
#98. We have the librarians on our side. We have *justice* on our side.
Polly Shulman
#99. Most of us live in two worlds -- our real world and the one we build or spin for ourselves out of the books we read, the heroes we admire, the things we hope to do.
Julia L. Sauer
#100. And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to the cable-car stop; in a moment rolled down the hill with our legs dangling to the sidewalk from the jiggling shelf, two broken-down heroes of the Western night.
Jack Kerouac
