Top 100 Quotes About Being A Hero
#1. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#2. Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
Lev Grossman
#3. As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
Alan Moore
#4. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.
Dominique Eastwick
#7. Being a hero to someone, even if it is a dog, is a feeling like no other. Though it can be frustrating, it can be the most rewarding thing to give someone a second chance at a happy life.
Elizabeth Parker
#8. Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me
Jonathan Stroud
#9. Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
China Mieville
#10. All I care about is providing and living every day. I don't care about world titles, being a legend, or being a hero.
Tyson Fury
#11. You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
Mickey Mantle
#12. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#13. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Hayao Miyazaki
#14. You're never too young to start being a hero. Practice dueling one-handed so you never need to drop your blankie. - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#15. Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.
James Marsters
#16. 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
#17. I'm a gypsy: no education, no schooling, nothing. I don't care what people think of me. I don't care about being a hero, a role model, a champion.
Tyson Fury
#18. being a hero is not all its cracked up to be." - Conor Kelly
Ali Isaac
#19. Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.
Melanie Rawn
#20. Being a hero is the easiest way to meet a bullet with your name on it.
David Kendall
#21. Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on Earth.
Will Rogers
#22. No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#23. Being a hero of my own life -- is that too much to ask?
Diana Bletter
#24. The world is totally screwed. I may have saved it, but nobody is going to thank me or reward me for that. I thought I'd feel some sense of satisfaction that I'd done the right thing. But I don't really. Being a hero is pretty damn stupid.
Charlie Human
#25. Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.
Dean Koontz
#26. People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized - not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience.
Kevin Conroy
#27. Sometimes a hero can be found in the most unexpected of places. That's when you must say to him, "Get out of my kitchen, silly! Don't you have some monsters to fight?" - The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero
Christopher Healy
#28. This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers
#29. Look, sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done -Liam
Christopher Healy
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Sometimes, to become a villian is more important for being a hero.
Amit Garg
#33. 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
#34. I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.
Johnny Damon
#35. What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
Ellen Hopkins
#36. There's a thine line between being a hero and being a memory.
Optimus Prime
#37. Look," Liam said, "sometimes being a hero isn't about getting the glory. It's about doing what needs to be done.
Christopher Healy
#38. When facing unbeatable odds, just think of yourself as unbeatably odd. (The Hero's Guide to Being a Hero)
Christopher Healy
#39. If being a hero is a matter of knowing your cues, like the fairy tale said, he'd missed his.
Lev Grossman
#40. I understand, now, that your own identity, your past, has nothing to do with the way others see you. Being a hero isn't about someone else's definition. Not Abigail's and not Constance's. Not the Post's. Not even Claire's. Being a hero is about one thing: the way you see yourself.
Rebecca Serle
#41. The way people behave. They refuse to admire their contemporaries, the people whose lives they share. No, but to be admired by Posterity -- people they've never met and never will -- that's what they set their hearts on. You might as well be upset at not being a hero to your great-grandfather.
Marcus Aurelius
#42. But what happens after you break - that, too, is part of being a hero.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#43. Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.
Lev Grossman
#44. Being a hero usually isn't much fun. It's terrifying, most of the time, right up until the point you make it out safe. It's being scared to do the right thing and doing it anyway.
Joshua C. Cohen
#45. 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
#46. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.
Josephine Angelini
#47. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#48. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.
Kieran Bew
#49. Skywalker is a direct translation of the word shaman out of the Tungusic, which is where Siberian shamanism comes from. So these heroes that are being instilled in the heart of the culture are shamanic heroes. They control a force which is bigger than everybody and holds the galaxy together.
Terence McKenna
#50. I'm nothing, here. A lowly surveillance analyst. Being the hero could have meant something good for me. Could have changed my whole life.
I could have done it. I should have done it.
I sat there and I thought about you, instead.
Julio Alexi Genao
#51. Give me a person who sincerely wants to commit themselves to being a salesperson, and put them on my team and I will give you a hero. That has always been my mindset as a sales manager, whenever I have been in that position. I believe in people, and I seek to encourage them to perform at their best.
Michael Delaware
#52. The hero, it might be said, is called into being when perception of a need an the recognition of responsibility toward it are backed up by the will to act.
Mike Alsford
#53. 'The Red' is the first book in a trilogy that gained a big following as a self-published e-book, and is now out in paper from Saga. It introduces us to reluctant hero Shelley, a former anti-war activist who chooses to join the military rather than serve jail time after being arrested at a protest.
Annalee Newitz
#54. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#55. I learned how fast you can go from being an international hero to being a reference in a joke on a late night talk show.
Michael Phelps
#56. Being afraid, being uncertain you'll succeed, but going ahead anyway - that's what makes a hero, Berhanu.
Kim Fielding
#57. He snorted. "He thinks killing a day-old hydra has made him a hero." None of the songs had ever mentioned the Vandalus Hydra being one day old: it diminished the story more than a little.
Naomi Novik
#58. What is a Man without his heroic deeds?
Avijeet Das
#59. Tenacity is more than hanging on, which may be but the weakness of being too afraid to fall off. Tenacity is the supreme effort of a man refusing to believe that his hero is going to be conquered ... Remain spiritually tenacious Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Beth Moore
#60. Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Steve Wozniak
#61. I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.
Tom Baker
#62. If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.
Ina May Gaskin
#63. I've been writing a lot about just the aspects of luck and being picked, and how of course it's always how one perceives themselves in the world, as a bit of a scapegoat or a bit of a hero. Everyone generally has about a 60/40 split that volleys, between those two.
Doseone
#64. Each human being has significant potential for light and darkness," Grandpa continued. "Over a lifetime, we get a lot of practice leaning toward one or the other. Having made different choices, a renowned hero could have been a wretched villain.
Brandon Mull
#65. I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.
King Hu
#66. Adel could almost feel himself leapfrogging over childhood. Soon, he would land as an adult. And when he did, there would be no going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: once you became one, you died one. Lying
Khaled Hosseini
#67. That for which Paul lived and died so gloriously; that for which Jesus gave himself to be crucified; the end that animated the thousand martyrs and heroes who have followed his steps, was to redeem us from a formal religion, and teach us to seek our well-being in the formation of the soul.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#68. It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
Billie Jean King
#69. He promptly forgot all about being the hero of a coward's nightmare,
Don Carpenter
#70. Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Robert Downey Jr.
#71. The Five Keys
1.Always be involved in her life 2.Respect and honor her mom.
3.Treasure every moment with her.
4.Pray for her every day.
5.Be her hero.
Harry H. Harrison Jr.
#72. Xander stood at the end of the bed, hands on hips, the jacket she'd helped him sew thrown open, a gold-threaded waistcoat glimmering underneath. He was the Regency hero today, but she didn't feel like being saved.
Danika Stone
#73. I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?
Esai Morales
#74. One of my heroes, almost necessarily from what I'm saying, of course, is Borges, who is a supreme master of doing thing
being a data bank
and the beauty of this economy is that he could have written War and Peace in three or four pages; who knows, it might have been a better book.
Peter Greenaway
#75. Women worry too much about how they smell or taste. I assure you, I love to taste a woman's primal essence on my tongue." Something melted inside her. He liked it? "Really? You're not just being polite, are you, Sir?" "No, kitten, when it comes to sex, I don't have a polite bone in my body.
Kallypso Masters
#76. Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero.
Vivian Campbell
#77. I must admit to being greatly influenced by Joseph Campbell's The Hero With a Thousand Faces.
Norman Spinrad
#78. Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle
before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime ... exempt[ion] ... from responsibility for what you do thereafter.
Thomas Sowell
#79. I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.
Danny Strong
#80. I'm proud to be Archie's son. Being a quarterback, I had my mentor and hero living in the same house.
Peyton Manning
#81. A hero is merely a man never afraid of being called to heaven because he is certain he has done his duty, Nicholas."
-Admiral Lord Nelson (fictional)
Ted Bell
#82. I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.
CM Punk
#83. Soon, he would become an adult. And when he did, there would be not going back because adulthood was akin to what his father had once said about being a war hero: one you became one, you died one.
Khaled Hosseini
#84. The downside is that a person spends $20 to watch that hero instead of being that hero himself.
Patrick Bet-David
#85. I don't know what Joe (DiMaggio)
wanted (in regards to being called 'the greatest living ballplayer'), but I don't have a problem, if he wanted to do that. He was my hero. Joe
was the best all-around player. Joe
was the best. I only played against him once, in the '51 Series.
Willie Mays
#86. You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.
Ray Rice
#87. It seems as if from being a novelty nine-day wonder, the super-hero has become a part of American life. It's here to stay.
For better, or for worse.
Alan Moore
#88. Paul Simon is my absolute hero. He's one of a kind. He wrote his own ticket in life by being himself.
Brett Dennen
#89. 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
#90. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
#91. The hero, whether god or goddess, man or woman, the figure in a myth or the dreamer of a dream discovers and assimilates his opposite (his own unsuspected self) either by swallowing it or by being swallowed.
Joseph Campbell
#92. A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.
Leon Leyson
#93. I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.
Albert Einstein
#94. The hero, in living her own life, in being true to herself; radiates a light by which others may see their own way.
Laurence Boldt
#95. After being Washington's aide for four years and becoming the hero of Yorktown, Hamilton was viewed with a great deal of suspicion because of his association with Tories.
Ron Chernow
#96. There was a certain beauty in waiting. This is why he didn't immediately put his hands on her. Even though every fiber of his being cried out for him to touch her, he held back and contemplated this unexpected moment.
Grady Bergeron, my hero in Watch Me
Riley Murphy
#97. I would dream of being a pro skater, but I never dreamt I'd be discovered by Lance Mountain and Stacey Peralta, who were two major heroes of mine, and be asked to skate for that team and be a part of their company.
Mike Vallely
#98. Being an offensive lineman, you always have the mindset of being an unsung hero - a lot of the people who look at the game follow the ball.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson
#99. I think most of us maintain some sort of fantasy in our minds that we are heroes, if only secretly, that we could really be amazing if only given a chance. That we could all be loved one day. You can always think of yourself as being transcendent or heroic. I think we all are.
Megan Fox
#100. It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives.
Walter Lippmann
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