Top 100 Quotes About A Hero
#1. Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
Charles Studd
#2. To suddenly be a hero on a world basis was hard for me to understand. God gave me a gift. I got the chance to use it. I didn't think I deserved what people were saying. My talent is just more visible than theirs.
Grete Waitz
#3. My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called my uncle. He was like a father to me. I was closer to him than I was my father.
Ed Bradley
#4. Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.
David Lynch
#5. Live as a villain, die as a hero
Banksy
#6. Klaus Wulfenbach: Was my son upset? Bangladesh DuPree: Oh, him? Yeah! He's all set to be a hero and rescue her
and then he finds out he'd need fireplace tongs to get her undressed? Yeah, upset is the word.
Phil Foglio
#8. What I'm trying to say is that you don't understand a man until you understand what makes him do what he does. Every man is a hero in his own story, Princess.
Brandon Sanderson
#9. The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.
Corey Feldman
#11. It's like you said all those months ago - people expect the Vagabond to be a hero. I have to act like one. -Kara
S.M. Boyce
#12. Your scars only make you dearer to me, reminding me of what a hero you are. My eyes behold the most handsome man in the world.
Melanie Dickerson
#13. I believe there is a hero in each of us. The best books are the ones that remind us of who we already are and empower us to embrace our own story.
Marilynn Halas
#14. Love isn't about wanting a hero, it's about wanting to be one for the other person.
T.M. Frazier
#15. Wars are won from a wink, a gesture, an event that transpired a millennium before the battle. Humanity has always been saved by small acts; the ones where someone gained a piece of their own puzzle, not the ones where a hero stood prodigious on a battlefield.
Sarah Noffke
#16. To be a hero is honourable; not to be one is not necessarily dishonourable.
Philippe Burrin
#17. Wrongly chosen, wrongly slain, A hero Valhalla cannot contain. Nine days hence the sun must go east, Ere Sword of Summer unbinds the beast.
Rick Riordan
#18. Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R.D. Laing
#19. Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.
Charles Studd
#20. Hey ladies, I'm willing to do my part to end domestic violence by posting a selfie online. Some might call me a hero
Nev Schulman
#21. I am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
Martha Stewart
#22. She say to tell you you was the nicest," Muddy told the boy. "She say to tell your dad he a hero, and that you was the nicest.
John Irving
#23. Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#24. Intellectuals and celebrities venerated monsters like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, & Ho Chi Minh. The New Left of the 1960s didn't have a change of heart, just a change of icons from Stalin to third world tyrants. The homicidal and sadistic Che Guevara is still held up as a hero ...
Jamie Glazov
#25. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam
Christopher Healy
#26. Have the fearless attitude of a hero and the loving heart of a child.
Soyen Shaku
#27. To all the women she saved and trained for battle, Otrera was definitely a hero. She gave them hope. She gave them control over their own lives.
Rick Riordan
#28. It's all interrelated, these destructive things I do. I latch on to people, like I'm collecting them. I'm always looking for a hero, you know?
Jenna Brooks
#29. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#30. A hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
Romain Rolland
#32. I value fame as much as if I had been born a Hero.
Aphra Behn
#33. Don't be a hero," I told him sternly. "Protect yourself.
Amanda Hocking
#34. I visit her grave as often as I can. I leave bouquets of rosemary and rue, and I tell her that I'm sorry, and I promise her that next time I'll do better. Next time someone makes me a hero, I'll save them.
Seanan McGuire
#35. Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
Maeve Binchy
#36. No one was a hero because everyone was a hero.
Wael Ghonim
#37. Whatever will happen will happen. You either face it as a coward or you face it as a hero.
O.R. Melling
#38. Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs. -Jaina Solo
Michael A. Stackpole
#39. Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.
J.V. Hart
#42. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.
Henry Ward Beecher
#43. Better not be a hero than work oneself up into heroism by shouting lies.
George Santayana
#44. It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.
Horace
#45. Road - tomorrow?" Myron asked. "Am I going back to the abbey?"
"Better - you're going to be a hero.
Michael J. Sullivan
#47. Lou Reed was a hero because he was an anti-hero.
Tom Stoppard
#48. The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Frank Miller
#49. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.
Lidiya Ginzburg
#50. I know heroes exist because i'm my little brother's hero. It isn't easy, it's not always fun, it's full of hard choices, and sometimes you have to put yourself second to help the people you love. But being a hero is a choice
Chris Colfer
#51. Sometimes, to become a villian is more important for being a hero.
Amit Garg
#52. This story didn't end in fireworks, because the truth is, fireworks are something from my twenties. I could have made fireworks, but I chose to make a nuanced memory of a person who is neither a hero nor a villain in my life.
Mindy Kaling
#53. It's sad when you learn you're not much of a hero.
Tim O'Brien
#54. I think a lot of people can relate to that school is pretty lousy for a lot of people, and it just shows that you don't have to be perfect and you can still be a hero.
Matthew Lewis
#55. A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
Andrew Bernstein
#56. I Spy with my little eye a hero's heart, a heart that beats not for itself but for all humanity."
"I'M NOT BEING MODEST. I JUST DIDN'T WANT TO DIE," Ben exclaims.
John Green
#57. I had a chance. I knew I had no more than that. it's all a hero asks for.
John Gardner
#58. A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#59. No man is quite so much a hero in the dark as in broad daylight, in solitude as in society, in the gloom of the churchyard as in the blaze of the drawing-room. The season and the place may be such as to oppress the stoutest heart with a mysterious awe, which, if not fear, is near akin to it.
William H. Prescott
#61. Because I'm tryin' to push you away when all I want to do is hold you. I know you say you don't want a hero, but damn I'd like to be that guy who'll save you from spiders and whatever and whoever else hurts you.
Simone Elkeles
#62. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things.
Romain Rolland
#63. The reason why I don't have a hero is because heroes set a bar - whereas if we don't have one, our potential is unlimited.
Peter H. Reynolds
#64. 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
Gerard Way
#66. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
#67. There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.
Optimus Prime
#68. I had to give him props, but how annoying of him to be a hero when I was trying so hard to dislike him. It was downright selfish.
James Patterson
#69. I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.
John Kiriakou
#70. I suppose I've always had a yearning, in spite of the fact that I am temperamentally unsuited to the role in every possible way, to be a hero out of myth, golden and reckless, galloping bareback to meet my fate on a wild horse no other man could ride.
Tana French
#71. Every hero needs a hero of their own. This is too big for one person.
Shona Perrett
#72. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#73. When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?
Eoin Colfer
#74. I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.
Lord Chesterfield
#75. That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood.
Lloyd Alexander
#76. The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?
C.S. Lewis
#77. He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#78. Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie. (Nick)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#79. I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.
Miep Gies
#80. The human passions transform man from a mere thing into a hero, into a being that in spite of tremendous handicaps tries to make sense of life.
Erich Fromm
#81. You Can't Be A Hero To The World, If Your Aren't First A Hero In Your Home!
Latif Mercado
#83. No, the fault lies with the artists," Claire went on. "The writers, the singers, the tellers of tales. It's them that take the past and re-create it to their liking. Them that could take a fool and give you back a hero, take a sot and make him a king.
Diana Gabaldon
#85. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.
Werner Erhard
#86. I've read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I've read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I'm not a big reader.
Conor McGregor
#87. It's been said that no man is a hero to a newspaperman, and I spent too many years as an ink-stained wretch.
David Simon
#88. If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.
Robert Jordan
#89. In the theatre, a hero is one who believes that all women are ladies, a villain one who believes that all ladies are women.
George Jean Nathan
#90. He had to escape. He had to go and become a hero, the way he had been once.
Cassandra Clare
#91. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
Ricky Martin
#92. By the way, you guys seriously screwed up just now. (Nero)
We know. (They said in unison.)
Yeah, well, what you don't know is how grateful your girl is to you. I just thought you should know that you guys are a hero to her ... and she thinks we're all idiots. (Nero)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#93. As More says, it hardly makes a man a hero, to agree to stand and burn once he is chained to a stake. I have written books and I cannot unwrite them. I cannot unbelieve what I believe. I cannot unlive my life. pg.404
Hilary Mantel
#94. 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
#95. It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
Jules Renard
#96. There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be a great soul!
Thomas Carlyle
#97. Not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.
John Barth
#98. People want Inaros to be a hero, and so what he does, they interpret as heroism." "Even
James S.A. Corey
#99. He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price.
Walter Hill
