Hero Quotes

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

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

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

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

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Hero-worship in the sense of expressing our unbound admiration is one thing. To obey the hero is a totally different kind of worship. There is nothing wrong in the former while the latter is no doubt a most pernicious thing. The former is man's respect for which is noble and of which the great men are only an embodiment. The latter is the serf's fealty to his lord. The former is consistent with respect, but the latter is a sign of debasement. The former does not take away one's intelligence to think and independence to act. The latter makes one perfect fool. The former involves no disaster to the state. The latter is a source of positive danger to it.

You have to be smart. He went from hero to zero, getting the pole position and doing what he did.

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

My film hero is Crazy Harry. He only pops up in about three or four Muppet films but he is brilliant.

A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gain, but rather, he is the one who acts well when he has nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Vicente was the sort of comic book hero, the guy who was going to bring down the regime. There was a certain mythical aura.

a hero for the football club.

Arthur Ashe Jr. is a true Virginia hero, and he belongs here.

We honor him as a fallen American hero. We are here to honor this young man, support his family and let them know we care.

Unlikely Angel: The Untold Story of The Atlanta Hostage Hero.

You know he's my hero, and I think he must be your hero, too.

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the plot. She'll often rescue the male character from some situation.

It really doesn't matter whether it's the villain or the hero. Sometimes the villain is the most colorful. But I prefer a part where you don't know what he is until the end.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

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