Hero famous quotes

God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Christian #Hero #Opportunity

The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.
-- A. B. Simpson

#Lying #Hero #Character

Housman is one of my heroes and always has been. He was a detestable and miserable man. Arrogant, unspeakably lonely, cruel, and so on, but and absolutely marvellous minor poet, I think, and a great scholar.
-- A. E. Housman

#Lonely #Hero #Men

To the Parisians, and especially to the children, all Americans are now 'heros du cinema.' This is particularly disconcerting to sensitive war correspondents, if any, aware, as they are, that these innocent thanks belong to those American combat troops who won the beachhead and then made the breakthrough. There are few such men in Paris.
-- A. J. Liebling

#Children #War #Hero

If there had been a strong democratic sentiment in Germany, Hitler would never have come to power . [Germans] deserved what they got when they went round crying for a hero.
-- A. J. P. Taylor

#Strong #Hero #Germany

Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.
-- A. Whitney Brown

#Running #Lonely #Hero

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.
-- Aaron Eckhart

#Hero #Long #Villain

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.
-- Aaron Hill

#Strength #Hero #Coward

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I'm a character actor.
-- Aaron Paul

#Hero #Character #Men

My resting pulse as a writer is writing idealistically and romantically; aspirationally. My taste lies in quixotic heroes.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Lying #Hero #Writing

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
-- Aaron Sorkin

#Country #Hero

I'm really not that good at Guitar Hero!
-- Aaron Yoo

#Hero #Guitar #Guitar Hero

If we mean to have Heroes, Statesmen and Philosophers, we should have learned women. The world perhaps would laugh at me, and accuse me of vanity, but you I know have a mind too enlarged and liberal to disregard the Sentiment. If much depends as is allowed upon the early Education of youth and the first principals which are instill'd take the deepest root, great benefit must arise from literary accomplishments in women.
-- Abigail Adams

#Hero #Mean #Vanity

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.
-- Abigail Adams

#Hero #Heart #Character

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
-- Abigail Adams

#Women #Hero #Mean

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.
-- Abraham Lincoln

#Hero #Long #Honor

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 Maslow

#Wise #Hero #Saint

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?
-- Abram Joseph Ryan

#Hero #Sleep #Blood

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.
-- Adam Baldwin

#Hero #Men #Guy

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
-- Adam Baldwin

#Hero #Long #Firefighter

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
-- Adam Brody

#Hero #Voice #Guy

You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.
-- Adam Goucher

#Running #Jobs #Hero

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.
-- Adam Hamilton

#Teacher #Hero #School

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.
-- Adam Levine

#Hero #Fans #Green

In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator – perhaps even a god – as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.
-- Adrian Goldsworthy

#Husband #Father #Hero

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.
-- African Spir

#Hero #Sacrifice #Men

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.
-- Agnes de Mille

#Hero #Heroines #My Hero

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.
-- Ai Weiwei

#Hero #Ideas #People

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.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Hero #Remember

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Real #Believe #Hero

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.
-- Akshay Kumar

#Hero #Tired #Voice

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.
-- Al Franken

#Couple #Hero #Giving

Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: “Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.
-- Alafair Burke

#Smart #Hero #Political

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.
-- Alan Barth

#Country #Hero #Character

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Hero #Believe #Discovery

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.
-- Alan Hirsch

#Hero #Journey #Ongoing

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.
-- Alan Jackson

#Children #Work #Hero

From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny, all the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.
-- Alan Keyes

#War #Hero #Liberty

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies
-- Alan Lomax

#Dream #Lying #Hero

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.
-- Alan Moore

#Life #Hero #Cheer Up

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.
-- Alan Redpath

#Hero #Order #Grace

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.
-- Alan Seeger

#Death #Hero #Doors

Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.
-- Alana Beard

#Hero #Mean #Years

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.
-- Albert Camus

#Hero #Passion #Live In The Present

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
-- Albert Claude

#Hero #Men #Cells

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Hero #Mean #Myth

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Hero #Son #Thinking

For some heroes, nothing is impossible
-- Alethea Kontis

#Hero #Impossible #Nothing Is Impossible

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.
-- Alex Bledsoe

#Hero #Noble #Kind

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.
-- Alex Kapranos

#Hero #Villain #Persons

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.
-- Alex North

#Hero #Film #Spartacus

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
-- Alex Tabarrok

#Hero #Mean #Self

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith

#Liars #Hero #Criminals

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.
-- Alexander Hamilton

#Hero #Patriotic #Bravery

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.
-- Alexander Lowen

#Death #Hero #Fate

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.
-- Alexander Lowen

#Fear #Hero #Faces

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
-- Alexander Pope

#Fall #Hero #Eye

In death a hero, as in life a friend!
-- Alexander Pope

#Hero #Dying

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.
-- Alexander Pushkin

#Hero #Men #Feelings

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words
-- Alfred de Vigny

#Children #Hero #Monsters

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

#Hero #People #Firefighter

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.
-- Alfred Molina

#Stars #Hero #People

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.
-- Alfred North Whitehead

#Courage #Hero #Bravery

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
-- Alfred P. Sloan

#Hero #Heroism #Ends

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.
-- Alfred Rosenberg

#Hero #Artist #Blood

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.
-- Ali Larter

#Sweet #Hero #Character

Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist all good.
-- Allan Bloom

#Spiritual #Hero #Artist

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.
-- Allen Carr

#Hero #Home #Shells

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hero #Ignorance #Long

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine

#Hero #Race #Firefighter

Don’t be a hero,” I told him sternly. “Protect yourself.
-- Amanda Hocking

#Hero #Protect #Protect Yourself

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.
-- Ambrose Bierce

#Hero #People #Body

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.
-- Aminu Kano

#Party #Hero #Resistance

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).
-- Ananda Coomaraswamy

#Life #Hero #Men

In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.
-- Anatol Rapoport

#War #Hero #Soldier

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.
-- Anatole Broyard

#Hero #Character #Three

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.
-- Anatoly Karpov

#Hero #People #Different

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Art #Hero #Thinking

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.
-- Andrea Dworkin

#Religious #Hero #Airplane

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Struggle #Hero #Men

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
-- Andrew Bernstein

#Hero #Needs #Undaunted

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.
-- Andrew Coyle Bradley

#Hero #Sight #People

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.
-- Andrew Davidson

#Hero #Soul #Enough

One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious beliefs. A hero is a hero, whether you’re a man, woman, gay, lesbian, straight, black, white or red all over ― it doesn’t matter.
-- Andrew Garfield

#Religious #Hero #Gay

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.
-- Andrew Gross

#Hero #Book #Writing

Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.
-- Andrew Gross

#Crazy #Book #Hero

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Hero #Dragons

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.
-- Andrew Solomon

#Hero #Dragons #Conformity

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.
-- Andrew Vachss

#Hero #People #Journalism

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

#Hero #People #Evil

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.
-- Andrew Young

#Mother #Hero #Rights

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.
-- Andy Biersack

#Hero #Numbers #Wish

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
-- Andy Biersack

#Real #Book #Hero

A great brand starts with a hero product.
-- Andy Dunn

#Hero #Brands

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?
-- Andy Mineo

#Hero #Dying #Stories

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.
-- Andy Partridge

#Football #Hero #Scotland

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.
-- Ang Lee

#Hero #Character #Thinking

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.
-- Anita Baker

#Hero #Issues #Generations

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.
-- Anita Brookner

#Philosophical #Hero #Support

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.
-- Anita Roddick

#Leadership #Hero #Eye