Hero Quotes

I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.

~ Seanan Mcguire

Now... all opposed to being rescued, raise your hands, otherwise, I'd like to get the fuck out of here~Veiron, Her Demonic Angel ~

~ Felicity Heaton

If I weren’t a gentleman, I would pound you into the ground right now.” He unfisted his hands in order to dismiss the temptation.

~ Nicole Castro

Sometimes there were troubles but no one can be a hero without the heart being torn open.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Every damsel in distress deserves a hero...

~ Tracy Anne Warren

People hide the truth to protect those they love!

~ Craig Mercier

Dear Diary, the Heroine never cries.

~ Amelia F. Jones

Put your f***ing finger down now before I break it off.

~ Nicole Castro

History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.

~ Ian Fleming

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

~ Philip Yancey

Wrapped up in him, in his bad boy ways and his good guy heart, is my whole world. Somehow, while I wasn’t looking, I fell. And I fell hard. For my soul mate. For the love of my life. For my hero.

~ M. Leighton

The hero is the one who goes beyond his ability to improve his skills, until he becomes able to improve, and perhaps even alter, the skills of others.

~ محمد عبد الرحمن العريفي

There was something of Francis in the boy, something pure and genuine and flawed. That type didn't think twice before running headlong into a burning house or a young girl's arms.

~ Johanna Moran

I could use you—if you pass the tests, of course. There are three of them. You have passed the first.What are the other— Hrun paused, his lips moved soundlessly and then he hazarded, two?

~ Terry Pratchett

If I have to dangle myself in the water like a freaking minnow, I will. Those people don't deserve this type of treatment. ~Willow Mosby (Exposing ELE)

~ Rebecca Gober

The Howeitat spread out along the cliffs to return the peasants' fire. This manner of going displeased Auda, the old lion, who raged that a mercenary village folk should dare to resist their secular masters, the Abu Tayi. So he jerked his halter, cantered his mare down the path, and rode out plain to view beneath the easternmost houses of the village. There he reined in, and shook a hand at them, booming in his wonderful voice: 'Dogs, do you not know Auda?' When they realized it was that implacable son of war their hearts failed them, and an hour later Sherif Nasir in the town-house was sipping tea with his guest the Turkish Governor, trying to console him for the sudden change of fortune.

~ T.e. Lawrence

The way he smiled with just one corner of his mouth said he’d show her a good time if she let him.

~ Laura Oliva

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

~ David Gemmell

I recognized the handwriting, and my heart gave a skip; when I opened it I got a turn, for it began, 'To my beloved Hector,' and I thought, by God she's cheating on me, and has sent me the wrong letter by mistake. But in the second line was a reference to Achilles, and another to Ajax, so I understood she was just addressing me in terms which she accounted fitting for a martial paladin; she knew no better. It was a common custom at that time, in the more romantic females, to see their soldier husbands and sweethearts as Greek heroes, instead of the whore-mongering, drunken clowns most of them were. However, the Greek heroes were probably no better, so it was not far off the mark.

~ George Macdonald Fraser

Faster than the devil *times* Sharper than wind! That's the ultimate law of the hero!!

~ Masashi Kishimoto

You're the hero my young romantic heart settled on so long ago, you're an absolute tiger at times, you're devious and not above playing a few tricks. I love you whatever you are all the time. I've loved you for ten years without stopping. I'll love you for as long as I have breath in my body. I'm committed to one man and I'm ready to face real life with him.

~ Margaret Way

Men’s strengths go hand in hand with their weaknesses. That is why there is no such thing as an invincible warrior, and why heroes die.

~ Shan Sa

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain.

~ Debi Gliori

Everybody wants to be a better version of themselves - everybody. And I hope one day I can lose some weight. Maybe, who knows, I'll hire myself a trainer and a fancy cook. In five years, maybe I'll be an action hero. Then again, maybe I'll just be this guy. Who knows? But the fun part is embracing the human side of that.

~ Billy Gardell

Well, you know, in any novel you would hope that the hero has someone to push back against, and villains - I find the most interesting villains those who do the right things for the wrong reasons, or the wrong things for the right reasons. Either one is interesting. I love the gray area between right and wrong.

~ Dan Brown

Given the scale of trauma caused by the genocide, Rwanda has indicated that however thin the hope of a community can be, a hero always emerges. Although no one can dare claim that it is now a perfect state, and that no more work is needed, Rwanda has risen from the ashes as a model or truth and reconciliation.

~ Wole Soyinka

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

~ Ani Difranco

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

~ Joseph Campbell

My Dad is my hero.

~ Harry Connick

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.

~ Patty Jenkins

My father was a dreamer - my hero. He was a smart, tough guy from Poland, a cutter of lady's handbags, an old socialist-unionist who always considered himself a failure. His big line was: 'Don't end up like me.'

~ Alan King

What is a hero without love for mankind.

~ Doris Lessing

'Aladdin' was probably my favorite Disney animation when I was a kid. The animation was great and Robin Williams was unbelievable as the Genie. 'Aladdin' was an amazing adventure and the lead character was a hero for guys, which I loved. It wasn't a princess or a girl beating the odds; it was a street rat. That seemed really cool to me.

~ Zachary Levi

Steve McQueen is my style hero. He's just cool, isn't he?

~ Orlando Bloom

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

~ Blake Lively

Lauryn Hill's always been a hero of mine. And Bruno Mars, Janelle Monae and Adele, those are the current artists I would reference in terms of who's been able to do really amazing pop records with really cool, organic throwback elements of soul in there as well.

~ Judith Hill

It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases it's for the lack of a suitable hero.

~ Dick Schaap

In sports, every day you can be the hero or the goat.

~ Geoff Stults

The political hero is not like the sports champion or matinee idol or daring inventor; like the war hero, he is born only of tragedy.

~ David Grann

J.J. Watt is larger than life and Houston's newest sports hero, in every sense of the word. He is a guy who spends NFL Fridays at high school football games and actively seeks out those in need of his kindness.

~ Hannah Storm