My Hero Quotes
They used to say Palestinians fight like heroes, now they say heroes fight like Palestinians
History is moving pretty quickly these days, and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.
We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.
The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.
... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.
Look, all administrations, all governments lie, all officials lie and nothing they say is to be believed. That's a pretty good rule.
Not that I want to be a god or a hero. Just to change into a tree, grow for ages, not hurt anyone.
There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives.
I think that the rhythm sections, drummers in particular, are the unsuing heroes of the music. It's the rhythm section that has changed the styles from one period to the other.
Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
If God cared only about religious activities, then the Pharisees would have been heroes of the faith.
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.
The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
We praise like frogs, Swear like frogs, Turn midgets into heroes, and heroes into scum: We never stop and think.
What we need now is heroes - millions of them. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.