Browsing Topic Best Hero Quotes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

We shouldn’t be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it’s yours.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

True power is living the realization that you are your own healer, hero and leader.

Owls are wise. They are careful and patient. Wisdom precludes boldness. That is why owls make poor heroes.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer – and they don’t want explanations that do not give them that.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

Like a lot of people, I had this naive hope that Barack Obama would fix everything quickly. You know, the culture of celebrity in this country leads us away from democratic ways of thinking and into this hero worship.

And so of course, one man cannot swoop in and fix everything on his own. It’s much more complicated and difficult than that, and progressives in this country since then have had to come to terms with the fact that we need to do more than actually get out of our house and vote. It’s an ongoing process to turn the tide.

Alzheimer’s caregivers are heroes.

Women can’t be afraid to look like action heroes. It’s not always pretty, but when it’s on the screen, it translates well to the audience.

My heroes have always been the hardworking and unflappable. Those who light a candle rather than curse the darkness.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

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. I’m just a cyclist.

This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business — that takes a lot of audacity.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning.

All the Greek mythic heroes had gone east, but they were myths. Achilles was a myth. Perseus, Theseus, Hercules… they probably existed in some form. But they all went east. That’s where a Greek went to make his bones so to speak. And Alexander the Great was the first man who actually went east not to plunder, not to loot and come back to Greece – which is where the Macedonians wanted to go back with the money. He stayed. And he became half-Eastern.

I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man, or any of that. I’m a character actor.

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.

There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes, and faith for falsehood.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media.

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.