Top 100 Quotes About Heroes Are
#2. Heroes are remembered but legends never die.
Babe Ruth
#3. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
Aleksandr Voinov
#4. It is really hurting; how big media plagiarize everyday and no one judges them; The real heroes are those tiny and small self-funded websites and blogs that provide all primary data for them to survive and it will continue as far they exist
M.F. Moonzajer
#5. Heroes are defined by their villains - Batman is nothing if he doesn't have Two-Face.
Greg Rucka
#6. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.
David Gemmell
#7. Gone are the days when heroes are emotionally locked away from the world until the end of the book, and thank goodness for that. Modern romance heroes are more complex than ever.
Sarah MacLean
#8. Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
Caitlin Moran
#10. Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.
Shannon L. Alder
#11. Brant's an idealist, and he's competent. There are few more dangerous combinations in this world ... Heroes are even more dangerous than idealists.
Patricia C. Wrede
#12. My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
Sidney Sheldon
#13. That would be no good," said the wizard, "not without a mighty
Warrior, even a Hero. I tried to find one; but warriors are busy fighting
one another in distant lands, and in this neighbourhood heroes are scarce, or simply not to be found.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#14. The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life has thrown at them.
Nikki Rowe
#15. Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
Hal Boyle
#16. My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
Bono
#17. Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.
Adam Phillips
#18. I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble
#19. Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
Tom Brokaw
#20. My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
Adam Baldwin
#21. If you can tell me who your heroes are, I can tell you how you're going to turn out in life.
Warren Buffett
#22. We need to build a beautiful granite and bronze monument in our nation's capital to honor American heroes, unsung American heroes. And those unsung American heroes are the rich.
Bernard Goldberg
#23. The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.
Leonard Mlodinow
#25. True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them.
Darynda Jones
#26. Generally speaking, men are held in great esteem in all parts of the world, so why shouldn't women have their share? Soldiers and war heroes are honored and commemorated, explorers are granted immortal fame, martyrs are revered, but how many people look upon women too as soldiers?
Anne Frank
#27. Myths of the heroes are cosmic creation myths in microcosm. They depict, in no matter how subtle variation, the eternal battle we wage to release the creative energies within ourselves and in the world.
Dorothy Norman
#28. The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
T. J. Oshie
#30. My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
Agnes De Mille
#31. You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.
Dave Winfield
#32. No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
Nathan Fillion
#33. As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
Tom Brady
#34. Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you how you'll turn out to be.
Warren Buffett
#35. It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Jeanette Winterson
#36. Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.
Timothy Snyder
#37. When I wrote 'The Pregnant Widow' three or four years ago, I tried to reread my first novel, 'The Rachel Papers,' because their young heroes are the same age. I couldn't finish it. It seemed to me so technically slapdash and weak.
Martin Amis
#38. My heroes are Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker, Ed Harris, Tommy Lee Jones, Anthony Hopkins and Sean Penn.
Walton Goggins
#39. Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.
Kevin Costner
#40. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.
Felix O. Hartmann
#42. To a degree, the Greek and Roman mythological heroes are just the first superheroes. They appeal to children for much the same reason. These gods and heroes may have powers, but they get angry and they do the wrong thing. They are human too.
Rick Riordan
#43. I come from an art history background. I studied at a master's degree level; I chose to dork out on art for much of my adult life. A lot of my heroes are artists and a lot of my musical heroes have an artistic side.
Black Francis
#44. My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.
Monte Irvin
#45. Future strong is filled with disruptive heroes. Are you one?
Bill Jensen
#47. In my experience heroes are no more good than you or I. And though occasionally noble, they are just as often cunning, resourceful, and a little brash.
Jonathan Auxier
#48. Those who share my heroes are, in the deepest sense, of my own kind.
Rebecca Goldstein
#49. Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
Max Beerbohm
#50. Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
Philip Zimbardo
#51. I'm very wary of fawning too much over heroes. There's an old adage that heroes are best kept at arm's length, and in a few instances in my life, that's been true.
W. Earl Brown
#52. Cowards and courage make for great conflict. Embodied within the statement above is the idea that imperfect heroes are the most satisfying because true courage is facing what you fear, trying even though the odds of failure are great. Internal
Debra Dixon
#53. I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.
Charles Durning
#54. Real heroes are like poor old Gaspode. No one ever notices them until afterward. That's the reality.
Terry Pratchett
#55. Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.
Sarah MacLean
#56. Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.
Gale Harold
#57. I've found that the people who play villains are the nicest people in the world and people who play heroes are jerks.
Tim Burton
#58. Those of us who follow Jesus Christ must seriously commit to praying for our leaders, never forgetting that even our greatest heroes are flawed individuals who need Jesus Christ, just like the rest of us.
Jonathan Falwell
#59. My heroes are just everyday people who work hard, are honest and have integrity.
Jordin Sparks
#60. Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero ... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.
Frank Herbert
#61. Five years ago, the heroes were technologists. Today, the heroes are designers building out a user experience. You can have the most amazing technology in the world, but if it's not put in a form that's useful and desirable, you won't be successful.
Robert Brunner
#62. Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials, or none at all.
Gerald W. Johnson
#63. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
Mark Twain
#64. Alphole heroes are just domineering assholes disguising themselves as alpha males. Real alpha males don't need to be assholes.
Sarah Wendell
#65. That is why heroes are always so tragic, in the end. They are alone.
Stephen Hunter
#66. Most of my heroes are just decent people. Decency is rare and underrated.
Sherman Alexie
#68. But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.
David Baldacci
#69. Freedom begins with what we teach our children. That is why Jews became a people whose passion is education, whose heroes are teachers and whose citadels are schools.
Jonathan Sacks
#70. In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.
Michael Steinhardt
#71. The souls of heroes are forged by the gods and tempered with the pain of life.
Brian Rathbone
#72. My guitar heroes are Eric Clapton and Jeff Beck and people like that - so I've tried to make an album of Robert Johnson covers that, well, while not totally faithful for blues purists, is faithful for people like me that grew up with the '60s and the electric blues-rock versions of Johnson's songs.
Todd Rundgren
#73. I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.
Jim Morrison
#74. 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
#75. Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
Masashi Kishimoto
#76. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
Gerard Way
#77. My musical heroes are people like Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie who wrote and sang real songs for real people; for everyone, old, young, and in between.
Tom Chapin
#79. Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do!
D.C. Akers
#80. My heroes are people who are working hard and trying to make a good living for their families. My heroes are people who put their families first.
Dale Murphy
#81. The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.
Henri Frederic Amiel
#82. There are those moments where you realize that your parents or your heroes are human and are fallible. That concept, in and of itself, is something that is dangerous to me, in a good way. It's exciting and scary to meet those people.
Simon Helberg
#83. For a novel need not be full of sorrow just because its heroes are suffering.
Orhan Pamuk
#84. 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
#85. My heroes are always ready, willing, and able to execute moves necessary to get themselves out of deep trouble.
Ruth Glick
#86. Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#87. The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.
Bruce Coville
#88. The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.
John Green
#89. Naval heroes are seldom immodest, but soldiers quite often are. It is said of one gallant general that publication of his book was delayed because the printer ran out of capital I's.
John Colville
#90. Children must be impressed with the fact that the greatest heroes are those who fight to help others, not those who fight for power or glory. They must be made to understand that victory does not prove that the thing fought for is right, nor that defeat proves that a cause is wrong.
Ellen Key
#91. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.
Gino Bartali
#92. Heroes are more than just stories, they're people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there's always something in them that'll turn sour... you'll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.
Joel Cornah
#93. My heroes are guys like Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Matt Damon. These are amazing actors with amazing careers that every actor should aspire to. I'm not saying I'm going to get anywhere close. It's not going to be an easy feat. I'm just in awe of their careers.
Dylan O'Brien
#94. Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip G. Zimbardo
#95. My heroes are the non-commissioned officers. If I had another life that's what I'd be - a regimental sergeant major or a similar rank. That's where the spirit of the armed forces is.
Bob Ainsworth
#96. Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
Brodi Ashton
#98. I'm not a historian, and I wouldn't want to be. I want to change the world. Attack the elite. Overturn the hierarchy. Look at my stories and you'll notice that the villains are always, always, those in power. The heroes are the little people. I hate the establishment. Always have, always will.
Terry Deary
#99. Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.
Eric Ludy
#100. I think heroes are the people that go into houses when they're on fire and save people in hospitals.
Luke Evans
