Quotes About True Heroes

#1. The casualties of war are true heroes that everybody forgets to remember, even those who fight wars within themselves ...

Michelle Horst

#2. Ultimately the men who choose against violence, against death, do so because they want to live fully and well, because they want to know love. These are the men who are true heroes, the men whose lives we need to know about, honor, and remember.

Bell Hooks

#3. I just write the characters the way I see them. And maybe that's because I'm surrounded by the most amazing men,from my father to my husband to all of my brothers. They are true heroes!

Gena Showalter

#4. Life waits patiently for true heroes. It is dangerous when those aspiring to be heroes cannot wait until they find themselves.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#5. All the true heroes of history will be forgotten and all the villains will be remembered as heroes.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.

Gale Sayers

#7. 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

#8. True heroes take their personal honor so seriously that they will fight for things that do not matter.

Peter Thiel

#9. 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

#10. My brother is one of my true heroes. Steady and sober where I am impulsive and emotional.

Mark McKinnon

#11. When the odds seem insurmountable and it seems impossible to overcome them, most people will give up.The true heroes in this world are those who don't give up in these times when things seem impossible to do.

Dave Brown

#12. Audiences aren't fools - their judgement really is important. And the true heroes of films are the investors. They take the risk, after all.

Stephen Frears

#13. Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters.

Willie Stargell

#14. anyone would fight for things that matter; true heroes take their personal honor so seriously they will fight for things that don't matter. This

Peter Thiel

#15. No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

Assata Shakur

#16. True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to progress and success,

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#17. True heroes don't fall. They only encounter temporary setbacks as they forge ahead towards progress.

Janvier Chouteu-Chando

#18. The women working at abortion clinics are really on the front lines and the true heroes of feminism.

Betty Dodson

#19. It is often said that freedom doesn't come free. It is also said that true heroes can come from both the most unlikely and obvious of places. I believe that. And so this book is dedicated to my heroes who fight overseas and at home.

Kelly Moran

#20. MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

Ambrose Bierce

#21. If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

Baal Shem Tov

#22. Shout out to Daryl Hall. He is the best. One of my true musical heroes. He comes from the Philly area so when it comes to true soul, the guy obviously is the expert.

Mayer Hawthorne

#23. Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Liza M. Wiemer

#24. Those who act like a mirror and show the true face of the nation to the nation itself are the real heroes of the nation, because all a nation needs is to see his real face, to see his faults!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#25. But it also demonstrates how difficult it is to correct a false belief after people have made an emotional investment in that belief being true. When our heroes turn out to be sleazebags, self-deception is easier than facing the facts.

Jon Krakauer

#26. Since those who believe they need a hero/celebrity outnumber the actual heroes/celebrities, people feel safe and comfortably justified in numbers, committing egregious crimes in the name of the greater social ego. Ironically diminishing their own true hero-celebrity nature in the process.

Lauryn Hill

#27. Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny,

Emilie Schindler

#28. True honor does not crave recognition, as true wisdom craves not publicity. The great heroes and the great men of wisdom walk silently through the bypaths of mankind.

Dagobert D. Runes

#29. You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.

Amit Kalantri

#30. Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me
Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal

#31. For the finale, I thought the audience deserved to get a close point of view on the monster, and to recognize him the way you recognize the heroes of 'True Detective.'

Nic Pizzolatto

#32. It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

Jimmy Jean-Louis

#33. The sudden passing of Jack Bruce is terribly sad news. One of the greatest rock bassists to ever live and a true and profound inspiration to countless musicians. He was one of my first bass heroes and was a major influence on my playing and my music. My heartfelt condolences to his family and fans.

Geddy Lee

#34. 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

#35. 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

#36. 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

#37. 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

#38. 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

#39. Pectoral implants? My God! The man's had a boob job!

Jackie Williams

#40. True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.

James Morris Robinson

#41. There are monsters among us, it's true. But there are heroes too.

Amie Kaufman

#42. That's the way to tell a true story from a made-up one. A made-up story always has a neat and tidy end. But true stories don't end, at least until their heroes and heroines die, and not then really because the things they did and didn't do, sometimes live on.

Elspeth Huxley

#43. The brave aren't called the brave because they weren't scared, Elena, neither the courageous, nor the heroes. All of those people written in history have one thing in common: fear, and plenty of it, but that is when true courage shows itself

Adrienne Woods

#44. It would be a dream come true to appear on Turner Classic Movies with Robert Osborne, who is one of my heroes.

Dennis Christopher

#45. True independence is an illusion; no one matures in a vacuum. We have heroes, we see villains, and ultimately we try to walk the path that's our own, through an ideological valley whose landmarks have already been described and claimed by others.

Nicolas Wilson

#46. Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn.

Winston Churchill

#47. Any true student must realize that History has no beginning. Regardless of where a story starts, there are always earlier heroes and earlier tragedies.

Brian Herbert

#48. We would make our heroes shallow ... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

Anne Rice

#49. Some heroes are born. Some are made. And some are bribed with promises of food and sex.

Nicole Peeler

#50. True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Alfred North Whitehead

#51. Colin reached out and grabbed hold o fine car engine, ripping it. He lifted it above his head. Solomon Cord dropped the wrench and said God it is true.

Michael Carroll

#52. Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.

Christopher Healy

#53. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.

Robert Kiyosaki

#54. Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their people. A people without heroes is a people without leaders, for only a heroic leader is a true leader able to withstand the challenge of difficult times.

Rudolf Hess

#55. By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Sydney Pollack

#56. Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

Carol Lynn Pearson

#57. Just to be on set with Amy Poehler, who's one of my heroes, was a total dream come true.

Tatiana Maslany

#58. An artist has an obligation to tell the truth. [ ... ] that the true horrors of human history derive not from orcs and Dark Lords, but from ourselves. We are the monsters. (And the heroes too). Each of us has within himself the capacity for great good, and great evil.

George R R Martin

#59. Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk away.

Michael Grant

#60. A man of worth is a man that sees the worth in others more than himself.

Shannon L. Alder

#61. I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

Henry David Thoreau

#62. Sad beyound words that Prince is gone. To me he was one of the greatest music heroes- a true genius.There will never be another Prince.

Shania Twain

#63. Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

Abram Joseph Ryan

#64. To quote French author Francois Mauriac, 'Tell me what you read and I'll tell you who your are' is true enough, but I'd know you better if you told me what you reread.

Sarah Wendell

#65. Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.

Sarah Cross

#66. We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.

Madison Thorne Grey

#67. There is no Clan in the forest so true or so brave. I respect and admire the other Clans, but my heart is here, with ThunderClan- the Clan of heroes, the Clan of compassion, the Clan of destiny.

Erin Hunter