Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
~ Will Rogers
Heroes are created by popular demand sometimes out of the scantiest materials . . . such as the apple that William Tell never shot the ride that Paul Revere never finished the flag that Barbara Frietchie never waved.
~ Gerald Johnson
A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him.
~ Sigmund Freud
When the heroes go off the stage the clowns come on.
~ Heinrich Heine
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man but he is brave five minutes longer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the forms of psychological heroism is the willingness to tolerate anxiety and uncertainty in the pursuit of our values - whether these values be work goals the love of another human being the raising of a family or personal growth.
~ Samuel Branden
Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
~ Golda Meir
Ezra Pound - idiosyncrasy on a monument.
~ Randall Jarrell
All these were honoured in their generations and were the glory of their times.
~ Bible
This thing of being a hero about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
One murder makes a villain millions a hero.
~ Bishop Beilby Porteus
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
~ George Bernard Shaw
An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.
~ E. M. Forster
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
~ R. D. Hitchcock
It is said that no man is a hero to his valet. That is because a hero can be recognized only by a hero.
~ Goethe
You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.
~ Mike Huckabee
We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.
~ Helen Hayes
My heroes, my dreams, and my future lay in Yankee Stadium. And they can't take that away from me.
~ Derek Jeter
They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.
~ Bill Burr
I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.
~ Steven Wright
Athletes tend to have less of a sense of humor than most people. They are heroes to so many. That might be part of it.
~ Jeff Ross
Humor is rare in science fiction... there's so little of it that it automatically reminds you of other heroes with that acerbic humor when you find it.
~ John Scalzi
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
~ H. L. Mencken
Heroes don't wear diapers. It's just not cool.
~ Felix Baumgartner
Perfect heroes are cool, but no one can really empathize or identify with them.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
~ Adam Brody
I come from a very athletic family. But I didn't have the typical Jewish sports heroes. I mean, like lots of Jewish kids I admired Sandy Koufax. But I didn't look up to him as the one person who gave me the desire to push on and succeed. My brothers did that for me.
~ Bill Goldberg
We strongly believe that children should not be exposed to smokeless tobacco or see such products being used by their on-field sports heroes.
~ Jerry Reinsdorf
Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
~ Nawazuddin Siddiqui
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
One of the strengths of the DC Universe has been the strength of the rogues' gallery. Often times they're as famous - if not more infamous - than our heroes.
~ Jim Lee
If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.
~ Guy Kawasaki
Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.
~ Katharine Lee Bates
Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.
~ Alan Dershowitz
We're past the age of heroes and hero kings... Most of our lives are basically mundane and dull, and it's up to the writer to find ways to make them interesting.
~ John Updike
I would like to acquire a document autographed by John Witherspoon, who signed the Declaration of Independence and is one of my American heroes.
~ Gregg Harper
Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
~ Daniel J. Boorstin
Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
~ Gale Sayers
The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
~ Warren Buffett
Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary.
~ Bindi Irwin
