We Need Heroes Quotes

#1. You can talk about right and wrong and good and bad all day long, but ultimately people need to see it. Seeing and studying the actual lives of people is simply the best way to communicate ideas about how to behave and how not to behave. We need heroes and role models.

Eric Metaxas

#2. And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

Richard Attenborough

#3. Heroes show us courage, honor, integrity and strength. Now more than ever, we need heroes.

John Patrick Hickey

#4. Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.

Edward Abbey

#5. The Lone Ranger is going to be one of those iconic characters that never rides off into the sunset. We need heroes like him - an underdog who fights the good fight, doesn't kill, and has some serious mojo when the chips are down.

Mel Odom

#6. We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.

Russ Thorne

#7. I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

Riley Keough

#8. 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

#9. While we can never truly repay the debt we owe our heroes, the least we should do for our brave veterans is to ensure that the government takes a proactive approach to delivering the services and benefits they have earned, so they can access the care they need and so richly deserve.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#10. We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

Fred Rogers

#11. Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul. The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call. We have need of them, for in their sum they epitomize the wisdom and experience of the race.

Stanley Kunitz

#12. We don't need any more heroes; we just need someone to take out the recycling.

Banksy

#13. If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

Harry Crocker

#14. Historically, diversity has been a real issue for superhero comics - so we need to do something about it, crafting strong, modern heroes for a modern audience.

Adam Christopher

#15. We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.

Toni Morrison

#16. 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

#17. Our Nation must provide sufficient access to healthcare, adequate benefits, and the supplemental resources our veterans were promised and so dearly need. We owe our heroes no less.

Dan Lipinski

#18. Merlin's eyes narrowed. We require heroes of wit and cleverness, unafraid to foil convention in order to defend a higher allegiance. Battle skills matter not. What we need at this moment, James Potter, are scoundrels with honor.

G. Norman Lippert

#19. Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

David Gemmell

#20. We don't need wings to be angels
We don't need reasons to be right
Your love makes us all better
That who we really are
Angels and heroes at heart

Brian Littrell

#21. 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

#22. We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

Joss Whedon

#23. Heroes endure because we need them. Not for their own sake.

Cassandra Clare

#24. Now, where do I bring this thing down?" I asked. There was a hesitation, then, "You don't. We didn't design it to return. It was a redundancy we had no need for. Too costly, in terms of resources." "So what do I do? I just saved the Earth. And now I suffocate out here?

Neil Gaiman

#25. We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

Robert Cheeke

#26. There can never be enough written about heroic acts and heroic people, we all need the inspiration they give us.

Carey V. Azzara

#27. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#28. We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Abraham H. Maslow

#29. I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around.
I feel so wanted. Thanks.

Rick Riordan

#30. We do not need to be heroes to save the world; all we need is humility, a critical view of the commercial and political interests of those who would mislead us into wrongdoing, and a sense of wonder.

John Burnside

#31. Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died.
They are only sleeping at the bottom of your mind,
waiting for our call. We have need for them.
They represent the wisdom of our race.

Stanley Kunitz

#32. The world rains on everybody, Laura. We just have to figure out a way to get a bigger umbrella than a lot of other people need, that's all. ~from-Here Comes The Heroes~

Kasey Michaels

#33. It's ever so important to believe in what you do, trust your ability to create and show yourself worthy. Never sell yourself short.

Simon Zingerman

#34. Dreams allow our private heroes to show up again and again, just when we need them most.

Gregory MacGuire

#35. Virtually every society that survived did so by socializing its sons to be disposable. Disposable in war; disposable in work. We need warriors and volunteer firefighters, so we label these men heroes.

Warren Farrell

#36. Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.

Willie Nelson

#37. Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

Simon Zingerman

#38. 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

#39. In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

Daniel Dennett