My Hero Quotes

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

Man's proper stature is not one of mediocrity, failure, frustration, or defeat, but one of achievement, strength, and nobility. In short, man can and ought to be a hero.

If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.

Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!

We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour; in other words, we are the hero of our own story.

One murder makes a villain; millions, a hero.

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

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

Leadership is a series of behaviors rather than a role for heroes.

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

Fred Astaire is my hero. I love him because he was willing to kill himself to make his art look effortless. And because he proved it's possible to be an artist and a good person.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

I also love Mole, the unsung hero of reality programming.

It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks.

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.

The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

The greatest menace to freedom is an inert people.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

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.

The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.

All interesting heroes have an Achilles heel.

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Historians from England will say I am a liar, but history is written by those who have hanged heroes.

The dynamic is extremely similar to Gremlins and the hero is very similar, plus the small town atmosphere. It really is in a way the third Gremlins movie.

The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways.

Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

He who masters the grey everyday is a hero.

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

"Good guy" or "bad guy", hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

I cherish the memories of a question my grandson asked me the other day when he said, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?' Grandpa said 'No... but I served in a company of heroes.'

You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.