Top hero Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of hero quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Eric Berne
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
- Eric Berne
Collection: Hero
Image of Jennifer Rardin
Sometimes things would be so much simpler if you could just pull out your gun and shoot the bad guy. Reason number seventeen why Indiana Jones is my hero.
- Jennifer Rardin
Collection: Hero
Image of Romain Rolland
You are a vain fellow. You want to be a hero. That is why you do such silly things. A hero!... I don't quite know what that is: but, you see, I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it.
- Romain Rolland
Collection: Hero
Image of Jeanette Winterson
In this life, you have to be your own hero.
- Jeanette Winterson
Collection: Hero
Image of Wayne Thomas Batson
Dead heroes do nothing to protect their people tomorrow.
- Wayne Thomas Batson
Collection: Hero
Image of Jefferson Bass
If you're going to play what-if --which, by the way, is a huge waste of time and energy, not to mention an act of supreme, center-of-the-universe narcissism-- you have to play it both ways. If you're going to imagine yourself as an accidental villain, you have to give yourself equal time as an unwitting hero. As somebody who prevented God-knows-what dire disaster simply by doing exactly the things you did.
- Jefferson Bass
Collection: Hero
Image of Christopher Reeve
A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.
- Christopher Reeve
Collection: Hero
Image of Eric Greitens
I was worried that all the corners of the earth had been explored, all the great battles fought. The famous people on TV were athletes and actresses and singers. What did they stand for? I wondered: Had the time for heroes passed?
- Eric Greitens
Collection: Hero
Image of Hiromu Arakawa
Well, it's like that myth about the hero. He made wings out of wax so he could fly, but when he got too close to the Sun, to God, the wax melted and he crashed to the ground.
- Hiromu Arakawa
Collection: Hero
Image of Florence Nightingale
I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
- Florence Nightingale
Collection: Hero
Image of Lance Morrow
Walter Duranty helped to turn the monster Stalin into a world figure and a hero of the leftistWestern intelligentsia by defending the bloodbath of the Soviet Union from its critics in the now famous: "You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs.
- Lance Morrow
Collection: Hero
Image of Studs Terkel
Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.
- Studs Terkel
Collection: Hero
Image of J.V. Hart
Even the darkest of villans-can have a hero's heart.
- J.V. Hart
Collection: Hero
Image of China Mieville
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
- China Mieville
Collection: Hero
Image of Max Beerbohm
Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.
- Max Beerbohm
Collection: Hero
Image of Banksy
Live as a villain, die as a hero
- Banksy
Collection: Hero
Image of Picabo Street
Adversity creates heroes.
- Picabo Street
Collection: Hero
Image of P. L. Travers
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in other cases, a mere syllable of a hero's name will elicit whole chapters of stories.
- P. L. Travers
Collection: Hero
Image of Holly Black
Every hero is the villain of his own story.
- Holly Black
Collection: Hero
Image of N.D. Wilson
Cowards live for the sake of living, but for heroes, life is a weapon, a thing to be spent, a gift to be given to the weak and the lost and the weary, even to the foolish and the cowardly.
- N.D. Wilson
Collection: Hero
Image of Eric Ludy
Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.
- Eric Ludy
Collection: Hero
Image of Peter Weiss
Long ago I left heroics to the heroes
- Peter Weiss
Collection: Hero
Image of Peter Weiss
In Dante the hero would rather flee and renounce the tempting embrace instead of yielding to his desires and enduring the attendant dangers.
- Peter Weiss
Collection: Hero
Image of Naoki Higashida
Normal people think we're highly dependent and can't live without ongoing support, but in fact there are times when we're stoic heroes.
- Naoki Higashida
Collection: Hero
Image of Hayden Panettiere
I found myself Tivoing because I was working so much last season [of Heroes], I Tivoed all of the episodes so I could come back and watch them back to back to back and I found myself like I could not put my remote down. I was like, "Just one more episode, please."
- Hayden Panettiere
Collection: Hero
Image of Ben Nelson
The heroes who emerged first from the rubble of the September 11 attacks were not politicians or generals and they didnt become household names in the months that followed. They were, instead, public servants who continued to work day in and day out to protect our communities and ensure hometown security.
- Ben Nelson
Collection: Hero
Image of David Abram
There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
- David Abram
Collection: Hero
Image of Lori Foster
The Love Undercover series features two cops, a street rat, and a construction worker as the lead heroes.
- Lori Foster
Collection: Hero
Image of C.C. Hunter
She remembered when they were kids and he'd caught the rock that the bullies had thrown at her. At six, she'd considered him a hero. At sixteen, she considered him a heartbreaker.
- C.C. Hunter
Collection: Hero
Image of Kevin Smith
More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.
- Kevin Smith
Collection: Hero
Image of Harvey Pekar
Since about 1980 Kenny Werner has been one of jazz’s unsung heroes
- Harvey Pekar
Collection: Hero
Image of Robert Bolt
If we lived in a State where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us good, and greed would make us saintly. And we'd live like animals or angels in the happy land that /needs/ no heroes. But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all... why then perhaps we /must/ stand fast a little --even at the risk of being heroes.
- Robert Bolt
Collection: Hero
Image of Andrew Vachss
Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.
- Andrew Vachss
Collection: Hero
Image of Philip Yancey
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
Collection: Hero
Image of Jules Renard
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.
- Jules Renard
Collection: Hero
Image of Dalton Trumbo
The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.
- Dalton Trumbo
Collection: Hero
Image of Joanna Russ
I didn’t and don’t want to be a ‘feminine’ version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
- Joanna Russ
Collection: Hero
Image of Alethea Kontis
For some heroes, nothing is impossible
- Alethea Kontis
Collection: Hero
Image of Maximilien Robespierre
It has been said that terror is the principle of despotic government. Does your government therefore resemble despotism? Yes, as the sword that gleams in the hands of the heroes of liberty resembles that with which the henchmen of tyranny are armed ... The government of the revolution is liberty's despotism against tyranny.
- Maximilien Robespierre
Collection: Hero
Image of Philip Zimbardo
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
- Philip Zimbardo
Collection: Hero
Image of Philip Zimbardo
I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don't and we want to change - I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.
- Philip Zimbardo
Collection: Hero
Image of Assata Shakur
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
Collection: Hero
Image of Nancy Farmer
Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.
- Nancy Farmer
Collection: Hero
Image of Mercy Otis Warren
But in the hero ne'er forget the man.
- Mercy Otis Warren
Collection: Hero
Image of Louise Penny
Few things are better in the world than a room full of librarians. I consider them literary heroes. The keepers and defenders of the written word.
- Louise Penny
Collection: Hero
Image of J. R. Moehringer
I began dividing life in absolutes... Things and people were either perfectly bad, or perfectly good, and when life didn't obey this black-and-white rule, when things or people were complex or contradictory, I pretended otherwise. I turned every defeat into a disaster, every success into an epic triumph, and separated all people into heroes or villains. Unable to bear ambiguity, I built a barricade of delusions against it.
- J. R. Moehringer
Collection: Hero
Image of Randy Travis
Your heroes will help you find good in yourself.
- Randy Travis
Collection: Hero
Image of Sarah MacLean
It didn’t matter the quality of the writing— Callie’s fantasies about her fictional heroes were entirely democratic.
- Sarah MacLean
Collection: Hero
Image of Elizabeth Hoyt
There are no heroes on the battlefield, my lady; there are only survivors.
- Elizabeth Hoyt
Collection: Hero
Image of James Belushi
Heroes aren't born, they're cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.
- James Belushi
Collection: Hero