Top 100 The Heroes Quotes
#1. The heroes of literary history have been no less remarkable for what they have suffered than for what they have achieved.
Samuel Johnson
#2. The heroes and heroines who triumph in his stories are not those with the most powerful magic, but rather those who demonstrate the most kindness, common sense and ingenuity.
J.K. Rowling
#3. We are never the heroes of our own stories, unless we are lying. If we choose to count ourselves among the brave, we write ourselves as the villains we are, hoping for redemption.
Suzanne Rindell
#4. Without hesitation, I place Freud among the heroes. He dispossessed the Jewish people of the greatest and most influential of all heroes-Moses.
Salvador Dali
#5. In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.
Lavinia Milosovici
#6. 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
#7. Outside of my family, I don't really know. They're great people and my parents are great parents, and they brought me up very well, I think. I don't know, I think that's about all the heroes I've had.
Robert Pattinson
#8. To those of you who are leading LifeGroups, I want you to know, you are the heroes of our mission.
Craig Groeschel
#9. Too many pupils at schools in the U.K. want to have careers as footballers or TV hosts, or models, because that's what they're constantly exposed to as the heroes of our time.
Sugata Mitra
#10. I am Birgitte Silverbow," Birgitte announced, as if to dispel doubt. "The Horn of Valere has sounded, calling all to the Last Battle. The heroes have returned!
Robert Jordan
#11. In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
Bertrand Piccard
#12. Show me the heroes that the youth of your country look up to, and I will tell you the future of your country.
Idowu Koyenikan
#13. How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in
obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god.
Washington Irving
#14. Well, there are conjoined twins in real life and we can tell a story about them so long as they're not the brunt of the jokes. In this, they're the heroes of this story; we love these guys.
Bobby Farrelly
#15. When faced with the choice to Love or Decieve, therein lies the path to the Heroes and Thieves.
Vanessa Carlton
#16. I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized people - the worship of spirits is synonymous with barbarism - it is mere fetish ... There is something philosophic in the worship of the heroes of the human race.
George Henry Borrow
#17. You cannot expect all the heroes to survive a good song
Joe Abercrombie
#18. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
#19. The heroes of faith in Hebrews 11 ... obeyed by faith ... obedience is the pathway to holiness ... no one will become holy apart from a life of faith. Faith enables us to claim the promises of God, but it also enables us to obey the commands of God.
Jerry Bridges
#20. 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
#21. I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.
Lincoln Diaz-Balart
#22. In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names' ending in OS and IS, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them.
Alexandre Dumas
#23. It is much more fun to write about villains then heroes. The villains are the ones that think out the scheme, and the heroes just kind of come along for the ride.
D.J. MacHale
#24. My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
Amit Kalantri
#25. 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
#26. I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.
Clark Gregg
#27. I didn't care ... about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.
Homer Hickam
#28. There's a long history of anthropomorphic animals in Japanese literature. The so-called 'funny animal scrolls' were the first narratives in Japanese history, and the heroes of many folk tales have animals as their companions.
Stan Sakai
#29. The Bible lists in Hebrews 11 the heroes of the faith ... who were tortured, imprisoned, stoned, torn apart, and killed by the sword. They didn't wear designer jeans but went about in animal skins, destitute and tormented.
Billy Graham
#31. The weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers
Nadifa Mohamed
#32. Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent.
Booth Tarkington
#33. The beauties of nature come after the storm. The rugged beauty of the mountain is born in a storm, and the heroes of life are the storm-swept and battle-scarred.
Lettie B. Cowman
#34. The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
Wilferd Peterson
#35. 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
#36. The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.
Charles Olson
#37. Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save and be saved. I wish somebody would write a story sometime about the people who warm up the heroes afterward.
Tove Jansson
#38. Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.
David Gemmell
#39. If the heroes run and hide, who will stay and fight?
ONE
#40. I was shaped by the heroes in the films I saw, which you always want to emulate and be like. I wanted to be like Alan Ladd, Gary Cooper, Jimmy Stewart.
Robert Osborne
#41. If you look at the great superheroes in any universe, you will always find that they have the very best super villains opposing them. It's because they are foils; they are people that the heroes play off of.
Jim Lee
#42. How DARE the villainous cads be as clever as the heroes.
Mercedes Lackey
#43. They can't help us. All the heroes in the universe couldn't help the Winters family. We're a clan of beings who can only help ourselves.
Ginger Scott
#44. Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.
Libba Bray
#45. We call the heroes of the past heroes of production.We feel entitled to call the present day magazine heroes 'idols ofconsumption'.Indeed, almosteveryoneofthem is directly, or indirectly, related to the sphere of leisure time.
Leo Lowenthal
#46. The only places where I have found that simple human dignity, that respect for the other man, and the gracious feel of tolerance and humanity have not been either among the heroes of the class-struggle or the 'thinking men' but among my simple 'backward' people.
Peter Abrahams
#47. So, unlike the heroes of Hebrews 11 who held onto nothing of this life, these dying churches held onto everything, at least everything that made them comfortable and happy. Such is the reason we speak of them in the past.
Thom S. Rainer
#48. You know, the heroes in my romance novels always say that. Scout's honor. But they all later admit to never being a Boy Scout.
Rachel Harris
#49. The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.
{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll}
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
#50. Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.
Amit Kalantri
#51. Part of the approach envisaged in bringing about Black Consciousness has to be directed to the past, to seek to rewrite the history of the black man and to produce in it the heroes who form the core of the African background
Steven Biko
#52. We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
A.W. Tozer
#53. The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless.
Leo Tolstoy
#54. 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
#55. Many types of people will have to disappear ... Many people will want to join us. Possibly we will conquer the whole world. People will die young but it will be fun. We will burn the corpses of the heroes.
Eduard Limonov
#56. You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.
Miep Gies
#57. Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories.
George R R Martin
#58. The blood of the heroes is closer to God than the ink of the philosophers and the prayers of the faithful.
Julius Evola
#59. All of the heroes
you see falling down
were filmed trying to stand up.
Mary Ruefle
#60. We may be the protagonists of tragedy, but we are also the heroes of our most beautiful and thrilling experiences.
Shin Kyung-sook
#61. These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war.
H.W. Brands
#62. But part of that incipient racism had always led whites to assume the leadership positions and perpetuated the view that whites rather than blacks were the heroes of the movement.
John Howard Griffin
#63. I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.
Anson Mount
#64. In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.
Peter Drucker
#65. Under the olive trees, from the ground Grows this flower, which is a wound. It is easier to ignore Than the heroes' sunset fire Of death plunged in their willed desire Raging with flags on the world's shore.
Stephen Spender
#66. 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
#67. Action separates the heroes from the cowards, the achievers from the complainers, the successful from the mere dreamers, the happy from the envious; it separates those who rise to the challenge of their goals from the haters who cower in the shadow of stagnancy.
Steve Maraboli
#68. God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.
Philip Yancey
#69. 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
#70. Too much has been said of the heroes of history-the strong men, the troublesome men; too little of the amiable, the kindly, the tolerant.
Stephen Leacock
#71. Myths of the heroes speak most eloquently of man's quest to choose life over death.
Dorothy Norman
#72. When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
Heinrich Heine
#73. The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.
Marcia Gay Harden
#74. First, how to memorialize the heroes of 9/11; second, something that expresses our resolve.
George Pataki
#75. Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.
George R R Martin
#76. 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
#77. This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes.
Debasish Mridha
#78. she just hadn't met anyone who compared to the heroes of the books she loved. A Mr. Darcy, or a Heathcliff, or even, in the right mood, a Christian Gray . . .
Jenny Colgan
#79. I felt like the end of an A-Team episode when everything worked out, and the heroes all got to go home and live happily ever after while the bad guys were put in jail. Except of course, I was the bad guy.
Whatever.
Shay Savage
#80. No time like the immediate, for tomorrow we may be dead, serving life and God's people no longer. It's in now we must take action to become the heroes of the morn'.
E.J. Squires
#81. Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story
the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.
Hugh Howey
#82. In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.
Gustav Stresemann
#83. In the 1950s and 1960s, the heroes were the long-term investors; today the heroes are the wise guys.
Michael Steinhardt
#84. I have come to know a God who has a soft spot for rebels, who recruits people like the adulterer David, the whiner Jeremiah, the traitor Peter, and the human-rights abuser Saul of Tarsus. I have come to know a God whose Son made prodigals the heroes of his stories and the trophies of his ministry.
Philip Yancey
#85. The lessons of the past suggest that racism and resentment against people of color will continue to flourish in America as long as the history that is taught transposes the heroes and the villains. That is the unspoken truth at the heart of the nation's racial divide.
Susan L. Taylor
#86. One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.
George W. Bush
#87. We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.
Bob Taft
#88. A writer absolutely has to make his villains clever and competent. It's no fun - and no challenge - for the heroes to get out of trouble without sweating about it first.
Timothy Zahn
#89. It is the villains who covet treasure, not the heroes. Unless the treasure in question is a really snazzy belt buckle, in which case, who can resist? - THE HERO'S GUIDE TO BEING A HERO
Christopher Healy
#90. Would the Protestant Reformation have happened without the printing press? Would the American Revolution have happened without pamphlets? Probably not. But neither printing presses nor pamphlets were the heroes of reform and revolution.
Rebecca MacKinnon
#91. When we look at history, we see history is made up of the heroes of their times. Yet, somehow we miss this when we put on the lens of the Scriptures.
Erwin McManus
#92. There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were
Nina Simone
#93. The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
John Thorn
#94. No! let me taste the whole of it, fare like my peers,
The heroes of old,
Bear the brunt, in a minute pay glad life's arrears
Of pain, darkness and cold.
Robert Browning
#95. With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
Phil Keoghan
#96. Girls are 50% of the population. We deserve to represent 50% of the heroes.
Tamora Pierce
#98. History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep changing parts.
Ian Fleming
#99. Most of the heroes of Scripture rose to their greatest victories after their worst mistakes. God is in the redemption business, and He testifies of this through the lives of everyone He calls.
Rick Joyner
#100. We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.
Maeve Binchy
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