Hero Quotes

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Elvis Presley

Movies, Dream, Books

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Heroic, Verb, Noun

For one thing, I don't think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.
Steven Spielberg

War, Themselves, Anybody

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.
Baltasar Gracian

Rather, Appear, Aspire

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil

Give, Order, Oneself

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.
Christopher Reeve

Power, Wisdom, Maturity

The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
Washington Irving

Today, Tomorrow, Turn

A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.
Alfred Hitchcock

Life, Good, Fear

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

Dreams, Real, Else

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.
Joss Whedon

End, Trying, Before

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Novalis

Knows, Longer, Minute

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton

Human, Decent, Behave

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Men, Battle, Takes

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Men, Battle, Order

I like to say I'm not a hero.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.
Andrew Bernstein

Life, Nature, Struggle

Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Human, Real, Hard

I think it's irresponsible when celebrities imply they're doing it all themselves. My son has aunties and uncles around all the time, and my husband is my hero. He's really full-on. I couldn't do it any other way.
Alanis Morissette

Time, Husband, Son

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

Time, Today, Care

I don't want to be a dead hero.
Billy Corgan

I'm a hero with coward's legs.
Spike Milligan

No hero is mortal till he dies.
W. H. Auden

Mortal, Dies, Till

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Loretta Lynn

Birthday, Him, Present

A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
E. W. Howe

War, Enough, Around

If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.
Steve Guttenberg

Pretty, Others, Underdog

And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Light, Face, Ready

I think Michael Moore is a hero.
Larry David

Freud was a hero. He descended to the Underworld and met there stark terrors. He carried with him his theory as a Medusa's head which turned these terrors to stone.
R. D. Laing

Him, Head, Theory

What is a hero without love for mankind.
Doris Lessing

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