Personal Hero Quotes

#1. When he graduated he'd thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero's journey, and that the world would provide him with an endless series of evils to triumph over and life lessons to learn. It took him a while to figure out that wasn't how it worked.

Lev Grossman

#2. For Hamlet, greatness means willingness to fight for reasons as thin as an eggshell: anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don't matter.

Peter Thiel

#3. Adelaide believes that all children should have enough grown-ups around who love them so that one can tell them to fight, one can tell them not to, and one can tell them not to worry so much.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

#4. There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters.

Anthony Burgess

#5. It is not society that is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse. And so every one of us shares the supreme ordeal
carries the cross of the redeemer
not in the bright moments of his tribe's great victories, but in the silences of his personal despair.

Joseph Campbell

#6. Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.

Sara Shepard

#7. Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

Carson McCullers

#8. For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made.

Guillermo Del Toro

#9. Sgt. Basilone in his personal humility and unwavering dedication to the men who served with him, became a true hero of the American people during World War II.

Jim Proser

#10. One of my greatest personal heroes is Jerry Lopez. When you can snowboard like he surfs, you'll be there!

Frederick Lenz

#11. That accents of the hero's self-consciousness are really objectified and that the work itself observes a distance between the hero and the author. If the umbilical cord uniting the hero to his creator is not cut, then what we have is not a work of art but a personal document. Dostoevsky's

Mikhail Bakhtin

#12. Like officer Dave.He's never said much about his life, but I can tell he's scarred. And he knows I'm scarred too. The wounded always recognize the wounded. We can smell each other.

Sherman Alexie

#13. You were created a hero and born to prove it. Stand on challenges and make a difference.

Israelmore Ayivor

#14. 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

#15. Every day I'm the hero in my own personal movie. Some days without realising, I show up in other people's movies. And they almost always cast me as the villain. Anonymous.

Anonymous

#16. I enjoy touring and traveling because that's the time when I get to read, and listen to music. You have all that downtime, which is great for that.

Julia Kent

#17. His voice cracked with the strain, and they stood looking at each other in the whiteness and the emptiness, and Harry felt they were as insignificant as insects beneath that wide sky.

J.K. Rowling

#18. Surely no child should fear his own father - especially a priesthood father. A father's duty is to make his home a place of happiness and joy.

Ezra Taft Benson

#19. HERO is a combination of my personal feeling and the commercialism.

Zhang Yimou

#20. All of my films are based on personal experiences and beliefs. Many of my heroes are my spokespeople - and some are not!

Michel Ocelot

#21. I don't play the role of a villain, really, but I like playing anti-hero kind of roles. I like characters where there's conflict, drama, and more personal investment than just being heroes.

Randeep Hooda

#22. What Guitar Hero has done is to turn music inside out. Whereas the iPod made music very personal, very singular - you put your ear-buds in and you listen to it - Guitar Hero turned it around and made it very social. So it is fun to play. It's fun to play against people.

Dan Rosensweig

#23. I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfilment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

Richard Dreyfuss

#24. The life of hero is the tale of a person overcoming personal hardship and obstacles while striving to achieve an exultant victory that voices repressed citizens' ecstatic thoughts and dreams.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#25. When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

Andrew Solomon

#26. The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to battle past his personal and local historical limitations.

Joseph Campbell

#27. Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

Alan Hirsch

#28. Always remember what is your own and what is not, and you'll never be troubled. [

Epictetus

#29. The plot is deceptively simple. Condensed even fur- ther, it might read as a personal ad in some questfinder's forum: Unlikely hero to save world from cataclysm. Seeks motley assortment of companions. Sidequests guaranteed.

Michael P. Williams

#30. I never got over you either," I ocnfess, and he draws in a deep breath. "It's because I never would let you go. You felt that, didn't you?" He presses a soft kiss to my lips. "Pienso en ti siempre." I think of you always.

Stevie J. Cole

#31. I chose to tell a personal story. When you tell a movie like this that's as emotionally charged as this is, it's a risk. As one of my great cinematic heroes, Francis Coppola, would say, "If you aren't taking the highest, greatest risk, then why are you a filmmaker?"

Christian Bale

#32. The existential hero strives for authenticity even when it is costly, lives meaningfully in the midst of a banal, absurd world, and confronts rather than rejecting reality regardless of the personal cost.

Jason Dias