Top 100 Your Hero Quotes
#1. Through that, I got to know Jerry's work, and I am definitely his number-one fan right now, which is interesting because it usually works the other way around: you usually create a project based on your hero.
Sean Hayes
#2. First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him.
Ray Bradbury
#3. In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.
Eric Kripke
#4. It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.
Anne Bronte
#5. I vowed after that day that I would be your hero too, no matter how long it took
Lauren Oliver
#6. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.
Noah Hawley
#7. Could I be your hero, or your villain? I guess it just depends in whose eyes
James Arthur
#8. Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.
(Letter to Alexander Chekhov, May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
#9. Haters, I'm not your enemy I'm your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I'm here
Nicki Minaj
#10. I would love nothing more than to be your hero, Becca Owens.
Jay McLean
#11. Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin.
Joseph Campbell
#12. Act One: Get your hero up a tree. Act Two: Throw rocks at him. Act Three: Get him down out of the tree. - attributed to George Abbott, on playwriting
Darrell Fusaro
#13. But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says 'Your Hero's Photo Here,' and 'Your Hero's Story Here.'
Brad Meltzer
#15. I am not your hero. I am not the other half of your soul who could never let anything bad ever happen to you. -trust your instincs first always, and me, if you choose, last.
J.A. Redmerski
#16. The end of the story is of your making, nobody else's. You can do with it as you choose. There are as many paths open to your hero as branches on a great tree. They are wonderful and terrible, and plain and twisted. They touch and part and intermingle, and you can follow them whatever way you will.
Juliet Marillier
#17. I'm not their hero, but that doesn't mean that I wasn't brave. I never walked the party line, but that doesn't mean that I was never afraid. I'm not your hero, but that doesn't mean we're not one and the same.
Sara Quin
#18. I've seen unpublished manuscripts where the writer doesn't know they are making fun of the villain - but they are. If you aren't afraid of your villain, how can your hero be afraid?
Gayle Lynds
#19. I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot.
Ann Nocenti
#20. Give your hero a strong simple reason that he or she has to solve the problem right now.
Matt Bird
#21. It's your hero complex, isn't it? You should see someone about that."
"Right after I get my head examined.
Brynn Kelly
#22. My mom is my hero. [She] inspired me to dream when I was a kid, so anytime anyone inspires you to dream, that's gotta be your hero.
Tim McGraw
#23. If the reader cares, I don't think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.
Barry Eisler
#24. Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
Coolio
#25. If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist.
Linda Howard
#26. When you're little, your father is your hero. Mine was. Then it all becomes more complicated.
Clare Balding
#27. For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.
Graham Greene
#28. In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down."- George Abbott
Austin Kleon
#29. I don't want to be your hero. I want to be your brother. You know, I want to be your family member. I want to be your equal.
Tom Shadyac
#30. Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day..
Ray Bradbury
#31. Call me sick. Call me deranged. I'm gonna be your worst nightmare. I'm gonna be your hero whether you like it or not!
Randy Orton
#33. An idea can change your fate in a wonderful way but you must first let the idea to touch your mind and your heart! No closed book can ever be your hero!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. As a person navigating the waters of public scrutiny, you are often unable to hold on to personal heroes or villains. Inevitably you will meet your hero, and he may turn out to be less than impressive, while your villain turns out to be the coolest cat you've ever met.
Rob Lowe
#35. Sometimes it feels like I'm all that they've got. It's so hard to know I'm not what they want.
Sara Quin
#36. I like stories where people have to face some big demons internally. It always seems to be an element of horror, because it's pretty scary to have to face yourself and the things you're most worried about: your own abilities and your own capabilities and your own level of competence in being a hero.
Scott Snyder
#37. I started on the opening page of my own book.
'I am a cheating, weak-spined, women-fearing coward, and i am the hero of your story. Because the woman I cheated on - my wife, Amy Elliott Dunne - is a sociopath and a murderer.'
Yes. I'd read that.
Gillian Flynn
#38. Dad, it's not optional: your daughter needs you to be her hero.
Meg Meeker
#39. Whatever circumstances you were born into, whatever family life and education you had or didn't have, you came here to make your dreams come true, and no matter where you are now, you are fully equipped with everything you need to do it!
Rhonda Byrne
#40. When you're eleven you think every idea is born with you, that no one ever tried it the right way before. Your example, your own honesty, will make you a hero to everyone who knows you - and better, it will make people come to their senses and stop telling vicious lies about each other.
Elana Dykewomon
#41. If your Olympic Hero were to use the Worm in the 1996 Olympic Games, it would be so embarassing to all the other atheletes - and our country, mind you- that the USA would have finished behind Guam.
Kurt Angle
#42. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.
Shannon L. Alder
#43. Take action. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life. Action is the antidote to apathy and cynicism and despair. You will inevitably make mistakes but at the end of your days, you will be remembered for your gallop, not for your stumble.
Bradley Whitford
#44. Have you ever lost someone close to you? Someone who is at the core of your universe, the hero of all your stories...when that happens, it isn't just the loss of one life, it's the loss of two lives - one who found another world, perhaps...and one who is left behind.
Faraaz Kazi
#45. You were the villain in your own story, Martinez. In mine, you've always been my hero.
M. Robinson
#46. No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero
Frank Herbert
#47. Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#48. ...your antagonist is a hero in their own mind... p.192
Jeff VanderMeer
#49. When you are pursuing your dreams, they will call you CRAZY because they are LAZY. They never know you are a HERO who just jumped away from step ZERO. Stay away from negative people; they will only pollute you.
Israelmore Ayivor
#50. If there was anything the last year had taught her - if there was anything Caleb had taught her, the Metigen War had taught her - it was that perspective was everything.
If you wanted to understand your enemy, you must understand that they were the hero in their own story.
G.S. Jennsen
#51. Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.
Randy Travis
#52. So die as though your funeral
Ushered you through the doors that led
Into a stately banquet hall
Where heroes banqueted.
Alan Seeger
#53. Don't be a hero. Don't have an ego. Always question yourself and your ability. Don't ever feel that you are very good. The second you do, you are dead.
Paul Tudor Jones
#54. I get it, she's your rock. Your anchor in the storm. ~Bo~
Lucian Bane
#55. Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots?
Seneca The Younger
#56. Live your life like you're the hero in your movie.
Joe Rogan
#57. For your sake I have braved the glen, and had to do with goblin merchant men. Eat me, drink me, love me. Hero, Wolf, make much of me. With clasping arms and cautioning lips, with tingling cheeks and fingertips, cooing all together.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#58. Take action. Every story you've ever connected with, every leader you've ever admired, every puny little thing that you've ever accomplished is the result of taking action. You have a choice. You can either be a passive victim of circumstance or you can be the active hero of your own life.
Bradley Whitford
#59. What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.
Jeanette Winterson
#60. So are you saying I'm your Superman?"
--- Josh Copeland
Dawn Chartier
#61. The deal is this. You be the hero. Come down here. Unarmed. Come inside with your hands on your head. I'll let everybody go. Then I'll blow your fucking head off. Sir. How's that for a deal? You buy it?
Richard Bachman
#62. You marvel and applaud big heroes in their big heroic actions, and forget you are a hero in your humble life and have modest heroic actions to complete yourself.
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#63. When you choose to act on your problems, you cease to be a victim of circumstance and become a force of change; that's when you transition to not only being a survivor, but to being a leader or hero too, and an inspiration to those still in the victim's mindset.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#64. I've had your kiss. I know what you taste like, and that's only worsened the need. Made me crave more.
Naima Simone
#65. Fair warning, baby. I'm in the mood for a fight, and I wouldn't play fair or nice.--Niall Hunter to Khloe Richardson
Naima Simone
#66. Find your "self-culture" is hero's work. I liken it to the journey of a warrior who is preparing for battle. There is no violence in the battle, but there is a plan of attack and a methodology that you need to employ to complete the journey. Page 12
Victoria Lorient-Faibish
#67. You can't expect that because you find a story and report it out that your newspaper and broadcasting company is going to want to publish and broadcast it - and you're going to be a hero.
Lowell Bergman
#68. If i fall your catching me" Piper said as she grabbed Jasons arm
"Uh ... sure" Jason hoped he wasn't blushing
Leo stepped out next "Your catching me too superman, but i ain't holding your hand"
- The Lost Hero, Aeolus place
Rick Riordan
#69. Your best disguise is the strong impression your enemy has of you. Strong...and dead wrong.
Michael Joseph Murano
#70. There's a hero, If you look inside your heart
Mariah Carey
#71. You've got one hero too many already. Stand on your own feet, Brother. It's good for the soul.
Dorothy Dunnett
#72. I was just cleaning up my own mess, Baz. Like, no one would call you a hero for cleaning up your own vomit.
Rainbow Rowell
#73. I look at my first books and am glad they weren't published ... You start writing by imitating your heroes, then you keep the heart of that worship in your work. As time goes by, you get other influences and find your own voice.
Markus Zusak
#74. Your Olympic Hero is scheduled to wrestle a match against the man they call the big red retard; not that I have anything against retarded people cause I don't. As a matter of fact, I have a lot of retarded fans out there that admire and respect your Olympic Hero, and I wish them well.
Kurt Angle
#75. When writing down a plan, I suggest numbering the steps. But just in case your plan falls into enemy hands, make sure you number them in the wrong order. - The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle
Christopher Healy
#76. Dar's been through enough in his life, and his legs are only a small part of it. Don't play with him, Cassie. If you're not serious, leave him the hell alone."
"And if I am serious?"
Sean smiled ruefully. "Then you're in for the fight of your life.
Justine Davis
#78. Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#79. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.
Robert Burns
#80. When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."
John Leguizamo
#81. Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#82. Everyone has an inner hero that they have glimpsed from time to time, just waiting to break free Now is the time to tap into your true hero potential,
Steve Rizzo
#83. It is an extraordinary thing to meet your heroes and find them to be everything you hoped they would be.
Simon Pegg
#84. A hero is a goddam stupid thing to have in the first place and a general block to anything you might wanta accomplish on your own.
Lester Bangs
#85. Hey!" He snapped out of his musings as Destiny's hand trailed down his body to cup his less than interested cock through his trousers. "Claws to self, Vampira, I assume you brush your teeth twice a day but I have no idea where those hands of yours have been.
Jane Cousins
#86. My dark beloved, my troubled hero, were you unable to sleep for thinking of me the whole night? Is that why the blush has left your face?
Orhan Pamuk
#87. You are working up to Mr. Fantastic Fiction levels of Zombie Expert, which is like playing Guitar Hero on some level that actually melts the guitar controller, burning your fingers with searing hot plastic till you scream in pain. Only with words. And zombies.
Libba Bray
#88. Be the hero of your own story. You are born to turn you mess into a message and the test into a testimony.
Farshad Asl
#89. Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.
Michael Bywater
#90. Whether you're an extra or the hero, this story is about to end. When it's done, whatever you want to be will be up to you and only you. It will happen away from the eyes of any audience and from the hand of any writer. You will be your own man.
John Scalzi
#91. Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me
Jonathan Stroud
#92. I guess I wanted to show people, among other things, that you don't have to be a hero to get through cancer. You can be a craven coward and get through. You have to stay on your medication and take your treatments, that's all.
Harvey Pekar
#93. Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
Warren Buffett
#94. We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words you are the hero of your own story.
Mary McCarthy
#95. Feeling like I am now lighting up the hall. I was used to standing in the shadow of a damaged heart.
Sara Quin
#96. Who brings out the champion in you?
Those that help you be the hero of your story, keep them close.
Tony Curl
#97. Magnus tells me I was a hero. And I see on your face when you're looking at me that you're searching for that guy. The guy you knew who was a hero, who did great things. I don't remember doing those things. I don't know if that makes me not a hero anymore. But I'd like to try to be that guy again.
Cassandra Clare
#98. There was no bond, but she reached him in ways no one else ever had. "If you ever find your true mate," he said, "I won't allow you freedom." He didn't have such goodness in him.
Nalini Singh
#99. 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
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