Hero Quotes

• Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

  

  Will McDonough
  • World
  • Personality
  • Athlete

• Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

  

  Andy Biersack Black Veil Brides
  • Life
  • Real
  • Book

• J.J. Abrams is an all-time hero of mine, really lovely to be working with him.

  

  Andy Serkis
  • Time
  • Hero

• I don't want to be a hero, I don't want to ever let you down.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Want
  • Hero
  • Honesty

• Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Powerful

• Hero. People didn't even know the meaning of the word.

  

  Arlene Hunt
  • Hero
  • Word
  • Meaning

• Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest were nourished and grown . . . Worship of a Hero is transcendent admiration of a Great Man. I say great men are still admirable; I say there is, at bottom, nothing else admirable! No nobler feeling than this of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Admiration
  • Great Men
  • Dwells

• We hate our heroes, you know. That's one of the great things about this whole deconstruction thing - there's no more heroes. It's always been there, you just look at people's reactions, and when the good guys are skunks, those parts stick with us.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • Guy
  • Hate
  • Hero

• Nobody asks to be a hero, it just sometimes turns out that way.

  

  Black Hawk
  • Way
  • Hero
  • Asks

• FAILURE IS INEVITABLE. I will fail. We all will. And having failed, and gotten back up, and failed again, taught me that I can survive failure. This is a downfall in most modern stories: the hero always wins. Because while this story is inspiring, it’s also false. In reality, not everyone wins. It’s 100% true that no one wills all the time, and we expect that—every hero must fall at least once. But it’s also 100% true that some people never win at all, and that’s the thing we try so hard to ignore behind the pretty stories. I could spend the rest of my life trying to be a prima ballerina, and it would not happen. I would fail at that for the rest of my life. FAILURE TEACHES US WHO WE ARE. Because even though I know I would fail forever at being a prima ballerina, I also know that I am not someone who should be a prima ballerina. It’s not who I am, it’s not what I want. Of course I would fail at it.

  

  Beth Revis
  • Failure
  • Stories
  • Inspiring

• All my big heroes are literary, writers.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Hero
  • Bigs

• The thing that interests me is the good and evil in everybody. I don't have conventional heroes in the films that I directed, because I believe there's good and evil in everybody.

  

  William Friedkin
  • Believe
  • Evil
  • Hero

• When Howard Marks came out of prison, years later, I met him at a concert in South Wales; I was a young whippersnapper and Howard was kind of an outlaw hero. I said to him - and it's on tape, a cousin of his filmed our meeting - I said, "If you write a book, I want to play you in a movie." He said, "Let's shake on it," and we did. Thirteen years later, there we were, making the movie.

  

  Rhys Ifans
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Kind

• The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • Hero

• I like a lot of Tom Cruise's roles, he's this action hero.

  

  Scott Eastwood
  • Action
  • Hero
  • Roles

• Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

  

  Viola Davis
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Powerful

• I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor get to be the hero?

  

  Esai Morales
  • Film
  • Actor
  • Characters

• The hero saves us. Praise the hero! Now, who will save us from the hero?

  

  Cato the Elder
  • Hero
  • Praise

• Worship of a hero is transcendent admiration of a great man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Hero
  • Worship
  • Great Man

• My mom is my hero, and I wouldn't be the woman I am today without her.

  

  Normani Kordei Hamilton Fifth Harmony
  • Woman
  • Hero
  • My Mom

• I think my biggest musical hero growing up was probably Ian MacKaye he set a great example for all of us local musicians. Still to this day I see him as the best example of a right-on musician.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Hero
  • Example
  • Musicians

• It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  

  Norman Schwarzkopf
  • Hero
  • Order
  • Battle

• People want you to be the ambassador of everything. This happens to me especially when I go to Europe. I have to be the ambassador of everything. I learned this from Elena Poniatowska - intelligent woman, great lady, one of my heroes, one of my spiritual mentors, I love her. Someone is in this big museum and they ask her, "Elenita, what do you think about Mexican women . . ." And she says, "I haven't a clue!"

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Spiritual

• Classic music somehow changed, and it changed between the first and the second world wars, and somehow what happened was that the hero that had been the composer, the hero now was the performer, and especially the conductor.

  

  Esa-Pekka Salonen
  • World
  • War
  • Changed

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