Heroes Quotes

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

~ Lance Conrad

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.

~ C.l. Werner

Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve’s hand—they’d have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.

~ Dennis Lehane

Wind-voice looked in amazement at the sword in his claws. “I—I’ll keep it safe,” he muttered to Winger. “For the hero, when he comes…”Winger was smiling a light, dreamy smile that radiated all over his thin face. “The hero is here, Wind-voice,” he said, awed. “You’re the hero.

~ Nancy Yi Fan

I come in peace unto you, heroes do not need weapons.

~ Kristian Goldmund Aumann

It drives me crazy who quickly the great ones get canonized. 'Blah-blah-blah is such a terrible loss.' Does that mean that the death of one mediocre slob is not as terrible? Do fags have to be geniuses to justify living?

~ Sarah Schulman

A boy adopts a hero for two reasons: because a hero captivates his soul and serves as a projection of his innermost self; and, because a hero seems to have solved many problems that may worry a boy, or at least demonstrates the capacity to solve them. The hero is an idealization of successful living, even though he may die in a story. The death may be gallant, brave, tragic, or perhaps even foolhardy. But living or dead, a hero is the stylistic embodiment of living on one’s own terms – noble terms, grand terms, exciting terms – terms, in short, that complement any youth’s uncorrupted, untamed, unabridged projection of what is possible to him in life

~ Edward Cline

The reason I'm attracted to the light of Scripture is because there's another side of me that is dark. The reason I am interested in men of peace is because I'm not like them and would like to be. I'm not someone in real life who turns the other cheek.

~ Bono

Hero love?” I was puzzled. “You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be.

~ Leland Dirks

Being a good mother is being a hero. Right?

~ Francesca Lia Block

Write down five character traits you admire most in your personal heroes. You now have a list of traits to emulate in your own life.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life would have been easier if he'd never taught her to believe in heroes by handing her those cookies that day, but it wouldn't have been nearly as magnificent either.

~ Kele Moon

Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.

~ Gale Harold

Heroes do not dwell in a time of peace; heroes are hardened in a kiln against the sorrows. Their troubles sharpen the blade and make it gleaming. The glint becomes a brightness that is raised high on a hill, allowing women and men to see beyond themselves. For light swallows darkness. Truth buries death. Heroes are not born. They are filled by Music.

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves.

~ Orhan Pamuk

We were supposed to be heroes.”“There’s no such thing as heroes.”Conversation between ‘Alis K’ and ‘Borge’The Informer by Steen Langstrup

~ Steen Langstrup

My generation must have despair. - Leonard Bernstein Ch 40/Dog Water Free, A Memoir

~ Michael Jay

Some writers, notably Anton Chekov, argue that all characters must be admirable, because once we've looked at anyone deeply enough and understood their motivation we must identify with them rather than judge them.

~ Scarlett Thomas

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. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

~ Mercedes Lackey

Not every girl can be Isabelle Lightwood or Katniss Everdeen. I think the true measure of a hero is what a person does with what they have, how hard they are willing to fight, and how far they are willing to go to set things right.

~ Sarah Cross

No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero

~ Frank Herbert

Today the word hero has been diminished. confused with celebrity. But in my father's generation the word meant something. celebrities seek fame. They take actions to get attention. Most often, the actions they take have no particular moral content. Heroes are heroes because they have risked something to help others. Their actions involve courage. Often, those heroes have been indifferent to the public's attention. But at least, the hero could understand the focus of the emotion.

~ James D. Bradley

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

~ Adam Phillips

There will always be trouble so there will always be a time for heroes

~ David Paul Kirkpatrick

The world should not be organized to require heroines, and when one is required but fails to appear we should not judge. We should just say, poor Camille, she turned into a bitch the way most people would have—and stay out of her way.

~ Ann-Marie Macdonald

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.”I nodded slowly. “Right,” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think.

~ Acacia Ackles

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor

~ Deana J. Driver

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

~ Assata Shakur

There’s no glory in this whole shit. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.Heroes rarely think. Heroes just act. So, all this is, is a stage for glory, small, personal and up to each one of us.

~ Aleksandr Voinov

In our hyper-secular world, worship is still inevitable. But it is vital to remember that our gods don't choose us, we choose them.

~ John Green

And you came back to Lyrian? Galloran said in disbelief.Believe it or not, I came through the same hippopotamus that brought me here the first time. Jumped into the tank on purpose. I wanted to keep others from wasting their time pursuing the Word. And I couldn't ditch Rachel.Galloran smiled. Truly, you are possessed by that species of madness that begets heroism.

~ Brandon Mull

What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?'She nodded.'The firing squad.''That's not the whole truth. Try again.''Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness.'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.'He was silent for several minutes.'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.''Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

~ Angela Carter

The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s a long, uncomfortable silence in which I contemplate what might happen next. Maybe like the villain in a movie, this is where she gives me a long spiel about her hard-up life before she kills me. Not that I totally believe she’s nefarious. Real life isn’t made up of heroes and villains. Just ordinary people making choices they have to live with.

~ Kat Kruger

I’d once again see that bob of blonde hair back on my pillow, that pink hot smile beaming toward me as I heroically win her heart in some kind of Count of Monte Cristo or Great Gatsby-esque gesture… you know minus the long imprisonment or swimming pool death!

~ Tom Conrad

Like watches over like, as the saying goes.

~ Drew Hayes

If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for he isn't fit to live.

~ Martin Luther King

Martyrdom - the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

~ George Bernard Shaw

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Play the man Master Ridley we shall this day light such a candle by God's grace in England as I trust shall never be put out.

~ Bishop Hugh Latimer