Hero Quotes

• The only difference between a hero and the villain is that the villain chooses to use that power in a way that is selfish and hurts other people.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • People
  • Power
  • Selfish

• Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Mom

• The truly tragic kind of suffering is the kind produced and defiantly insisted upon by the hero himself so that, instead of making him better, it makes him worse and when he dies he is not reconciled to the law but defiant, that is, damned. Lear is not a tragic hero, Othello is.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Law
  • Suffering
  • Hero

• Any man and woman, and I've been on the record, any man or woman who wears the uniform and serves this country is a hero. I've said that repeatedly at all the town halls I've had.

  

  Joe Walsh The Eagles
  • Country
  • Hero

• A tragedy is that moment where the hero comes face to face with his true identity.

  

  Aristotle
  • True
  • Moment
  • Identity

• Hail hero, hail hero, let me see you smile You been gone for so damn long, I wish you'd stay awhile

  

  Gordon Lightfoot
  • Long
  • Wish
  • Smile

• I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

  

  Maynard Jackson
  • Perfect
  • Mean
  • Democracy

• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Hero
  • Brave

• It's important for a young black kid to see a Mexican hero, just to know that we're all equal.

  

  Adrian Younge
  • Important
  • Black
  • Mexican

• 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
  • Boy
  • Pie

• He was my hero. I enjoyed being with him. He wasn't as stern as he was on camera. He was like a kid around me.

  

  Johnny Crawford
  • Hero
  • Camera
  • Around

• The best tragedies are conflicts between a hero and his destiny.

  

  Aristotle
  • Best
  • Destiny
  • Tragedies

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

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Style
  • Cool
  • Hero

• Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Story
  • Hero
  • Look

• Buster Keaton is my hero.

  

  French Stewart
  • Hero

• I'm just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Song
  • Man
  • Sing

• Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

  

  Ricky Martin
  • Help
  • Teacher
  • Courage

• You're a hero and a gentleman, you're kind and honest, but more than that, you're the first man I ever truly loved. And no matter what the future brings, you always will be, and I know that my life is better for it.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Men
  • Kind

• It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Hero
  • Soldier

• People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

  

  Kenneth Kaunda
  • People
  • Good
  • Hero

• How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Long
  • Dancing
  • Trees

• Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.

  

  Katie Hafner
  • World
  • Simple
  • English

• One of the things that I really enjoyed playing with Ender was how he's constantly struggling between his brother and his sister. It's like he's got two sides to him. And I've always wanted to play a darker character, and in this film and in the novel, Ender has his moments where he isn't a glorified hero.

  

  Asa Butterfield
  • Character
  • Moments
  • Brother

• His chutzpah and his imagination in the scams and stings he pulled off were so imaginative and so courageous. Amazing. I loved the fact that he could pull off all of those professions. In a way, he's sort of the anti-hero that you root for, even though you know he's going to have to pay a price and go to jail

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Amazing
  • Imagination
  • Hero

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