Quotes About Being Your Own Hero

#1. Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

Anita Brookner

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. What is a Man without his heroic deeds?

Avijeet Das

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. If I had the right, I would forbid you to go anywhere without me. Not out of selfishness, but because being apart from you is like trying to live without breathing.

Lisa Kleypas

#10. If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

Ina May Gaskin

#11. 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

#12. The thing about grown ups is that they're always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What's wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor's sake? What's wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They're just totally unrealistic ...

Cressida Cowell

#13. 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

#14. Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, - but the beauty and soul in his aspect ... runs into fable, personifies every fact ...

Marsilio Ficino

#15. The art of the hero wasn't about being brave; it was about being so competent that bravery wasn't an issue. You

Christopher McDougall

#16. Where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?

China Mieville

#17. 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

#18. She is not the princess locked away in the fortress and you are not some hero who's going to save her.

Heather Anastasiu

#19. To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

Alberto Villoldo

#20. 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

#21. I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

Susan Orlean

#22. 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

#23. 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

#24. Love is being willing to become the villain so that the one you love can stay a hero.

Josephine Angelini

#25. Think: the hero prolongs himself, even his falling
was only a pretext for being, his latest rebirth.

Rainer Maria Rilke

#26. A lot of characters now on TV have moved into being anti-heroes, but I wanted to be the hero.

Kieran Bew

#27. 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

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Diana Wynne Jones

#33. Please don't say you're sorry, False platitudes of sorrow, of pity, of goddamned praise of being a hero, sicken me.

Dominique Eastwick

#34. If now we were livingin the Revolutionary War and George Washington he being arrested through Britain. For sure he, they would consider him enemy combatant. But American, they consider him as hero.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

#35. '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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

Francesca Lia Block

#39. Being afraid, being uncertain you'll succeed, but going ahead anyway - that's what makes a hero, Berhanu.

Kim Fielding

#40. The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.

Flannery O'Connor