Quotes about hero
hero might tests
Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test. Wilfrid Sheed
hero heart humble
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all. Wilferd Peterson
hero giving waiting
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person
hero men progress
The reason progress is slow is that we always expect other men to be the heroes and to live the heroic lives. But we all have hero stuff in us. In our sphere of life we can always live more heroically and triumphantly and grow in heroic stature.
hero idols my-hero
Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. Warren Zevon
hero home mean
But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging. ... Recording at home enables one to eliminate the demo stage, and the presentation stage in the studio, too. ... And I think it's safe to say that the single very impressive figure to me was Merle Haggard. ... Dylan can do no wrong. ... Glenn Gould was my hero. Glenn Gould was my idol. I loved him. ... I loved Hendrix. I mean, really, really loved him. As if he were one of the great classical composers. And he was. That's how I saw him.
hero reality villain
The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals. Waylon Jennings
hero men would-be
How convenient it would be to many of our great men and great families of doubtful origin, could they have the privilege of the heroes of yore, who, whenever their origin was involved in obscurity, modestly announced themselves descended from a god. Washington Irving
hero heart winning
He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero.
hero ambition soul
It is all very well to talk about being the captain of your soul. It is hard, and only a few heroes, saints, and geniuses have been the captains of their souls for any extended period of their lives. Walter Lippmann
hero villain undone
Villains are undone by what is worst in them, heroes by what is best. Voltaire
hero guy risk
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. William Hurt
hero ambition pestilence
Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration. Walter Savage Landor
hero thinking leaving
I think action movies on the whole have moved more and more into large spectacle, even leaving out super hero movies that seem to me to be more a fantastic science fiction than they are action movies. Walter Hill
hero paris scientist
I hope that some day scientists can be considered heroes again, instead of Paris Hilton. Walter Isaacson
hero play age
Bette Davis, she was so brilliant and one of my heroes, but she worked a ton, and then she didn't get All About Eve [1950] until the last minute. Claudette Colbert was supposed to be Margo Channing, but then she broke her back and couldn't do it. That allowed Davis to play her age. Winona Ryder
hero honor failing
A nation that fails to honor its heroes, soon will have no heroes to honor.... Winston Churchill
hero fighting greek
Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.
hero heart dragons
There's a hero in every heart waiting for the dragon to come out. Rick Yancey
hero thinking boys
It's not bad enough I am exiled? It's not bad enough you take away the few good heroes I'm allowed to meet? You think it's funny to send me this this ― this charbroiled runt of a boy to ruin my tranquility? This is NOT FUNNY! Take him back! Rick Riordan
hero
No hero is above fear.
hero perseus
Perseus, you are not the hero.
hero careers broken
One of my biggest heroes and people I was fortunate enough to be around is David Bowie. I look at his career, and he always had the balls to break things that weren't broken, to step away from something and try something new, at risk of failing. Trent Reznor
hero character men
We live in an age fit for heroes. No time has ever offered such perils or prizes... The test of this century will be whether man confuses the growth of wealth and power with the growth of spirit and character. Vince Lombardi
hero thinking guy
As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time. Vijender Singh
hero firsts
Joe Louis was one of my first heroes. Robert Goulet
hero order different
You’ve got to be uncomfortable and rise to different occasions in order to become your best. No one is born a hero, but things happen and your response makes you a hero. It’s instinctual, it’s something that you may not even realize is there. Robert Glasper
hero soul lines
O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll. Rudyard Kipling
hero wine boys
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. Samuel Johnson
hero unique trying
I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet. I love doing them, but sometimes you wanna completely try something different and create something unique and get lost in it a bit because it's completely far away from me. Sam Worthington
hero believe boards
I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.
hero men wonderful
PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family Sam Claflin
hero heart men
Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart. Ruth Glick