Quotes About What It Means To Be A Hero

#1. Amantium irae amoris integratio est
A Latin saying that means
Lovers' quarrels are the renewal of love

Janet Aylmer

#2. Fearless for oneself, fear for others - that must be what it means to be a hero.

Neal Stephenson

#3. I sing, not arms and the hero, but the philosophic man: he who seeks in contemplation to discover the inner will of the world, ininvention to discover the means of fulfilling that will, and in action to do that will by the so-discovered means.

George Bernard Shaw

#4. Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Diana Wynne Jones

#6. The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

John Adams

#7. Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.

Patricia Hill Collins

#8. But Clary's a hero at heart- and that means she'll find a way to be the hero she needs to be, to look beyond the skills she doesn't have and draw on the skills she does have to ultimately save the day.

Sarah Cross

#9. She was by no means one of the great refusers. Not an existentialist hero, or a Rosa Parks, or even a Bartleby.

Renata Adler

#10. When it came to 'Concussion,' I found myself with so many threads to weave. So integral to the whistle-blower's tale were spirituality, the cost of hero-worshipping, what it means to be an American, and just how dangerous the truth can be.

Peter Landesman

#11. Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

James Marsters

#12. But there were certain moments in life that forever defined one as a person - in one's own estimation, anyway. And one's own self esteem, when all was said and done, was of far more importance than the fickle esteem of one's peers.

Mary Balogh

#13. Oh, I get it, it's simple. PG means the hero gets the girl, 15 means that the villain gets the girl, and 18 means everybody gets the girl.

Michael Douglas

#14. A hero sacrifices for the greater good. A hero is true to his or her conscience. In short, heroism means doing the right thing regardless of the consequences. Although any person could fit that description, very few do. Choose this day to be one of them.

Brandon Mull

#15. What's a hero, if not for its journey. I think you're going to recontextualize what saving the world means, and I think that you will be satisfied with the stakes. That's all I can say about that.

J.H. Wyman

#16. You know festus means happy in Latin right? You want us to go save the world on Happy the dragon?
-Jason to Leo in the lost hero

Rick Riordan

#17. To empathize with someone means to care about and understand him. That's why the trick to keeping the audience's interest in a character, even when the character is not likable or is taking immoral actions, is to show the audience the hero's motive.

John Truby

#18. Only the wise know just where predestination ends and free will begins. Meanwhile, you must keep on doing your best, according to your own clearest understanding. you must long for freedom as the drowning man longs for air. Without sincere longing, you will never find God.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#19. Tomorrow you'll receive your employment contracts. Once you sign those I'm your boss." When I didn't answer he said, "That means you act the way I want you to act. That means you shelve your attitude and the twenty questions."
"Should I shelve those next to 'personality'?

Samantha Young

#20. The Democrats are all over this. Democratic strategists feel John Kerry's war record means he can beat Bush. They say when it comes down to it voters will always vote for a war hero over someone who tried to get out of the war. I'll be sure to mention that to Bob Dole when I see him.

Jay Leno

#21. RVM Thoughts for Today - Learn to surrender , because sometimes,when there is no way,surrender is the way.

R.v.m.

#22. If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

Thomas Carlyle

#23. To be alive today is to have a story to tell. To be alive is precisely to be the hero, the center of a life story. When you can be nothing more than a minor character in somebody else's tale, it means that you are truly dead.

Daniel Mendelsohn

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

Alberto Villoldo

#25. Talk to strangers politely. You don't how many of them will become your close companions.

Israelmore Ayivor

#26. The Wellcome Foundation offered me the chance to establish a small academic research unit, modestly funded, but with total independence. The real opportunity, however, came from King's College, London.

James W. Black

#27. Love seemed more beautiful, if it wasn't mine

Beni

#28. 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

#29. It means a lot to be compared to Eric Roberson. He's a hero of mine.

Avery Sunshine

#30. The hero, the waker of his own soul, is himself but the convenient means of his own dissolution.

Joseph Campbell

#31. No, no. By all means, lead on. Nothing gets the blood pumping more than hunting down the biggest threat to the realm and deciding we'll just wing it.

Elizabeth Carlton

#32. I'm always interested in getting to know people, and that means vilified people as much as those celebrated. You find out that heroes aren't always so heroic, and villains have some bit of humanity in them.

Dustin Lance Black

#33. They spoke as though these Princes are so remote from life as we know it that the smallest sign of humanity, the mere fact even that they communicated by means of speech was worth noting and proclaiming.

Nancy Mitford

#34. 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