Heroes Quotes

The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tribut...

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat T...

The modern hero is a person who does something everyone thinks they could do if they were a little s...

Go ahead, scoff, he said, petulant. Except in the life of a hero, the whole world's meaningless. The...

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods d...

All heroes are shadows of Christ

All heroes are shadows of Christ

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of oth...

Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.

We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and...

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgemen...

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids.

war. Or, rather, wars. Not one, not two, but many wars, both big and small, just and unjust, wars wi...

[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a bett...

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

She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up...

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic our los...

when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- tha...

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we fin...

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....

Ah, the world was ever so. How sad are heroes when their tasks are done...

see, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don’t have a hero. You...

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not ...

Now, where do I bring this thing down?" I asked. There was a hesitation, then, "You don't. We didn't...

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of lif...

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being her...

They’re so brave," she said. "They’re all dead." "Only a coward would think of that," she said scorn...

Think of all the stories you've heard, Bast. You have a young boy, the hero. His parents are killed ...

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

Every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they hav...

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a g...

You were the one who taught me," he said. "I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the...

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part ...

We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers c...

He is a true hero," she said, "a dragonslayer, a giantkiller, a rescuer of maidens, a solver of impo...

There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."(King Pelles the...

The authentic human being is one of us who instinctively knows what he should not do, and, in additi...

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

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of ...

Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.

But no man's a hero to himself.

Heroes in the stories never had to sleep in haystacks, or under hedges. But it was not easy to prete...

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.

Dalek: I will talk to the Doctor.The Doctor: Oh will you? That's nice. Hello!Dalek: The Dalek strate...

Heroes and scholars represent the opposite extremes... The scholar struggles for the benefit of all ...

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

We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroe...

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with t...

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the cal...

I get depressed with these fluffy dragons and noble elves. Elves were never noble. They were cruel b...

Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light gl...

No, what he didn't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and hom...

...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly im...

Quite, quite,' she thought with a little sigh. 'It's always like this in their adventures. To save a...

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible faith is one person willing to do something a...

Dead people can be our heroes because they cant disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as...

He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe...

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

Over all our happy country - over all our Nation spread, Is a band of noble heroes - is our Army of ...

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

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

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without an...

... and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout: 'Save us!'. And I'll look down and wh...

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them...

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

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children ...

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the...

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you y...

Well, the ancients might not have been very heroic. Most of them were probably like Mother, crouched...

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of l...

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because t...

After September 11th, I never much liked the trend of everyone and his brother wearing the hats and ...

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dar...

Where there are villains, there will be heroes. Just wait. They will come.

I know, better than anyone else, that there are no heroes coming to save us. There are no good Epics...

Jill had, as you might say, quite fall in love with the Unicorn. She thought- and she wasn't far wro...

What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but ...

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

Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

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

Every student, Shadowhunter and mundane alike, knew the name Herondale. It was Jace’s last name. It ...

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every o...

Our fathers were demons,' Catarina said. 'Our mothers were heroes.

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anyb...

All heroes are shadows of Christ

Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In...

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Be careful who you choose as your hero or who you choose to deify, be it Clay Aiken or Barack Obama....

In a room wherepeople unanimously maintaina conspiracy of silence,one word of truthsounds like a pis...

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

And you,You can be meanAnd I,I'll drink all the time'Cause we're lovers,And that is a factYes we're ...

Is it not obvious? What is life but a betrayal? We start out young, full of hope. The sun is good, t...

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death...

My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.