Quotes About What It Takes To Be A Hero

#1. That's what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

Lise Hand

#2. But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan

Allan Heinberg

#3. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#4. A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem.

James Marcus Bach

#5. They flew her," Matt pointed out. "Sure they did - and my hat's off to them. But it takes heroes to fly a box as primitive as this and I'm not the hero type.

Robert A. Heinlein

#6. It only takes a second to be someone's first hero.

Robert J. Braathe

#7. The people who keep coping, keep trying, no matter how many blows Fate takes at them. Nobody'll make a song about them, but they're heroes all the same.

Mercedes Lackey

#8. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#9. We tell specific stories about ourselves to ourselves and we're all the heroes of our own lives. But you live through certain experiences with other people, and sometimes they have very different takes on what happened.

James Franco

#10. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.

Lidiya Ginzburg

#11. I think any good artist - and I'm not saying that I am one - takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them.

Patrick Stump

#12. From listening in on these chicks wax rhapsodic over these brothers, if they were anything less than Nick Bateman clones, well, then I'd be highly disappointed.

Harper Bentley

#13. Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

Susan Sontag

#14. Everyone calls him Blockhead
No one sings his praises
Or takes him to heart ...
That is the kind of person
I want to be

Kenji Miyazawa

#15. Neil Armstrong today takes his place in the hall of heroes. The moon will miss its first son of earth.

Mitt Romney

#16. To love pleasure takes little. To love truly takes a hero who can manage his own fear.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#17. Where are the heroes and the saints, who keep a clear vision of man's greatest gift, his freedom, to oppose not only the dictatorship of the proletariat, but also the dictatorship of the benevolent state, which takes possession of the family, and of the indigent, and claims our young for war?

Dorothy Day

#18. Anyone can slay a dragon ... but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

Brian Andreas

#19. Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.

Nancy Duarte

#20. I believe that everyone is a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change. All we need to do is acknowledge and understand this and then help others to also understand the same. That's all it takes to be a hero, a leader, a volunteer, a teacher and a champion of change.

Jeroninio Almeida

#21. Power, money, lusts of the flesh and any other desire which takes a man, a family, a village or a nation from peace or freedom and places it under the sword is tyranny and the enemy of all.

Jaime Buckley

#22. After all, you don't have to be a sword-wielding Gryffindor to be a hero; sometimes, all it takes is having your heart in the right place. We

J.K. Rowling

#23. I'm very happy that the New York Times has spoken well of my stuff; who wouldn't be? But it's not a choice I made.

John M. Ford

#24. The mind was simply the operation of the brain.

Paul Kalanithi

#25. If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)

Sting

#26. It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

Mary McCarthy

#27. Selling wine is all about sizing people up, and it takes a certain amount of chutzpah. The tableside bottle sell is a very funny thing - you take a look at the guy's blazer, what kind of shoes he's wearing, what kind of broad he's with. Is he trying to be a hero?

Joe Bastianich

#28. Idiot people like Angel Delaporte who look for a supernatural reason for ordinary events, those people drive Misty nuts.

Chuck Palahniuk

#29. The hero never rests fights every breath. When he dies god takes him.

Nadair Desmar

#30. David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

Shaquille O'Neal

#31. A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.

Geoffrey B. Wilson

#32. That first meeting - the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love - is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you've won yourself readers.

Sarah MacLean

#33. IDEAS CAN BE TRANSMUTED INTO CASH THROUGH THE POWER OF DEFINITE PURPOSE, PLUS DEFINITE PLANS.

Napoleon Hill

#34. WHEN you hit a gay bar in the middle of a weekday afternoon you wonder why they don't call it something else.

Lawrence Block