Hero Quotes

• If I win gold, I will dedicate it to Nelson Mandela. He is a hero in South Africa, and everything I do, I do for him.

  

  Caster Semenya
  • Gold
  • South Africa
  • Dedicate

• There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Work
  • Great

• A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Men
  • Purpose
  • Thinker

• The characters that have greys are the more interesting characters. The hero who sometimes crosses the line and the villain who sometimes doesn't are just much more interesting.

  

  Geoff Johns
  • Interesting
  • Hero

• Growing up, Michael Jordan was my Olympic hero.

  

  Kerri Walsh Jennings
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Hero

• I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

  

  Billy Crudup
  • Good
  • Wish
  • Hero

• Stories let you be the hero, the doctor, the lawyer, the gladiator. They let you go on a journey.

  

  Channing Dungey
  • Journey
  • Hero
  • Lawyer

• I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.

  

  Brett Ratner
  • Culture
  • Hero

• I get along with the Democrats, but please - I'm not their hero.

  

  John McCain
  • Hero

• There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.

  

  Jess Walter
  • Real
  • Desire
  • Hero

• I get typecast as doctors, principals, middle-management-type guys - which, when you look at me, you realize is completely against my physical characteristics. I should be an action hero. So I don't understand what's going on.

  

  Brian Huskey
  • Action
  • Hero
  • Management

• Wars, conflict, it's all business. 'One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero'. Numbers sanctify.

  

  Charlie Chaplin
  • Business
  • Hero

• The difference between human heroes and sacred characters lies just in this: the man is just a man, but behind the man of God, God Himself is ever standing greater than the man and overshadowing him by His infinite and glorious presence.

  

  Albert Benjamin Simpson
  • God
  • Character
  • Lies

• What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Soul
  • Courage
  • Morality

• Elton John is an absolute lad. He's a hero.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Hero
  • Lad
  • Elton John

• While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, 'Man',And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Hero

• His petty syllabi, the sounds that stick, Inevitably modulating, in the blood. And war for war, each has its gallant kind. How simply the fictive hero becomes the real; How gladly with proper words the solider dies, If he must, or lives on the bread of faithful speech.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Real
  • War
  • Words

• Once, long ago, Parminder had told Barry the story of Bhai Kanhaiya, the Sikh hero who had administered to the needs of those wounded in combat, whether friend or fo. When asked why he gave aid indiscriminately, Bahai Kanhaiya had replied that the light of God shone from every soul, and that he had been unable to distinguish between them.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • God
  • Long
  • Why

• My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

  

  Peter Cullen
  • Life
  • Brother
  • Marine

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

  

  May Sarton
  • Hero

• Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Life
  • May
  • Feeling

• There is real power in seeing yourself as a hero. Because then you believe that you can do anything.

  

  Jenny Han
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Power

• There is nothing to be compared to this, 'cause we lost our brother, our hero. The world is mourning. We are mourning. The fans are mourning. It is unreal. Unbelievable.

  

  Jermaine Jackson The Jacksons
  • World
  • Lost
  • Brother

• My father is my hero. No matter what, I'll always forgive him.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Father
  • Hero

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