Heroes Quotes

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

E.M. Forster

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

R. D. Hitchcock

It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.

Goethe

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.

Martin Luther King

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw

Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.

Bishop Hugh Latimer

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.

Gerald Johnson

A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.

Sigmund Freud

When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.

Heinrich Heine

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals the love of another human being the raising of a family or personal growth.

Samuel Branden

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.

Golda Meir

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

Randall Jarrell

All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.

Bible

This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

Will Rogers

One murder makes a villain millions a hero.

Bishop Beilby Porteus

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

Drew Hayes

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

Frank Herbert

Today the word "hero" has been diminished. confused with "celebrity." But in my father's generation the word meant something. celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion.

James D. Bradley

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Adam Phillips

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

David Paul Kirkpatrick

Let's Not Just Be Heroes! Let's Be Heroes Who Lead!

Daniel Wetta

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way.

Ann-Marie MacDonald

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right,” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

Acacia Ackles

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship." - John Hanlon, the sailor

Deana J. Driver

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

Assata Shakur

There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act. So, all this is, is a stage for glory, small, personal and up to each one of us.

Aleksandr Voinov

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

John Green

And you came back to Lyrian?" Galloran said in disbelief."Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel."Galloran smiled. "Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

Brandon Mull

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?'She nodded.'The firing squad.''That's not the whole truth. Try again.''Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness.'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.'He was silent for several minutes.'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.''Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

Angela Carter

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

Kat Kruger

I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

Tom Conrad

When a man losses faith he betrays a hero

Elizabeth J. Kolodziej

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

I have lived long enough to see real, significant changes made for the good...and I have been fortunate enough to have participated in some of them...One person can make a difference!(Father Ted Hesburgh, C.S.C., quoted in our book, God's Icebreaker by Jill A. Boughton and Julie Walters)

Jill A. Boughton

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

Cassandra Clare

It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?

Sarah Schulman

A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost self; and, because a hero seems to have solved many problems that may worry a boy, or at least demonstrates the capacity to solve them. The hero is an idealization of successful living, even though he may die in a story. The death may be gallant, brave, tragic, or perhaps even foolhardy. But living or dead, a hero is the stylistic embodiment of living on one’s own terms – noble terms, grand terms, exciting terms – terms, in short, that complement any youth’s uncorrupted, untamed, unabridged projection of what is possible to him in life

Edward Cline

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

Bono

Hero love?” I was puzzled. “You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be.

Leland Dirks

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

Francesca Lia Block

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

Steve Maraboli

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

Kele Moon

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

Gale Harold

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

We are here because the world needs heroes.

Robert J. Braathe

The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little stronger, a little faster, a little smarter, or a little more generous. Heroes in ancient times were the link between men and perfect beings, gods. Heroes in modern times are the link between man as he is and man as he could be.

John Edwards

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

Orhan Pamuk

We were supposed to be heroes.”“There’s no such thing as heroes.”Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup

Steen Langstrup

It's better to talk about a dead hero than a living zero

Umar Hassan

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

Michael Jay

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

Scarlett Thomas

I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

Mercedes Lackey

Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.

Sarah Cross

Far to our left I could see a commercial airliner on final approach to Soekarno-Hatta. Far to our right I could see the outline of tall city buildings. The imagery was hard to ignore. In the midst was an impoverished world filled with dangerous radicals. Some believed it was God’s will to crash airplanes into buildings. Some recruited children to self-detonate on buses and in coffee shops. It must be incredibly difficult to hold fast to hope when you live in such a world. It’s also hard to keep faith with humanity when religious ideology is used as an impetus for war. But I also believe that for every war there is a hero … and for me, Jakarta will always be Indira’s city.

Tucker Elliot

Who are your heroes?" asked Jo."Grandfather and Napoleon.

Louisa May Alcott

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