Top 1200 Great Hero Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

The day I became a hero, my dream was realised. Everything else is a bonus.

All of us start from zero. We take the right decision and become a hero.

Every show that sells out is like a hero's welcome for me.

If you're not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn't choose.

A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.

From childhood, both my brother and I have had only one hero, and that's our dad.

I am a person who does not subscribe to the hero-CEO school of thought.

You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever.

No action hero is more closely associated with cars than James Bond.

A warrior is free to be a hero and pull off daring do and the soldier is irresponsible if he does it.

It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that a great many people know perfectly well how silly and camp and trivial their fandom is. They do not check in their minds when they enter a fan site. Judgement is not necessarily fled to brutish beasts, and men have not quite lost their reason. Which is all a way of questioning whether pop-culture hero worship is really so psychically damaging, so erosive of cognitive faculties, so corrupting of the soul of mankind as we are so often told.

Believe me that every man you see in a military uniform is not a hero.

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

It's not that I don't like starring as the hero, it's more of a mental block that prevents me from doing so.

When I think about Plastic Man, he was genuinely the first funny super hero.

Ideally, you should be your own hero, just as I am mine.

If a woman does need a hero, she needs him today, not tomorrow.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

Where's the mileage in an autobiography? Anyone who writes one inevitably casts themselves as a hero, and I'm not about to do that.

When I was 6 my father went to fight in the war, so he was my big hero. I thought he was the greatest thing.

CALVIN: Our hero regains consciousness at the feet of a sarcastic alien.

There are many indicators of advanced civilisations, but unthinking hero worship of the military isn't one of them.

Deadpool's' probably pretty proud of his comic book hero physique.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Tracy Smothers was the epitome of the perfect Smoky Mountain hero. He was legitimate.

Being an entertainer, I want to play the role both of a villain and a hero.

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

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

Whoe'er excels in what we prize, appears a hero in our eyes.

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

I was never crying and shaking like the Beliebers do, but I understand the idolizing of a hero.

Duke Wayne played a mean guy but never an anti-hero.

Toshiro Mifune was such an elegant hero, and there's something really empathetic about him.

You either die a hero or live long enough to become the villain.

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

It will be a great accomplishment if I become the best player in the world. But if my children can grow up with great core values and become great people and do good things and are happy, then, man, that would bring me great joy.

Klinsmann was the shining hero of the 2006 World Cup when Bayern took him on.

It was about finding creative, original musicians. Musicians who are strong composers. Flexible, empathetic musicians, who are great individually but who also have a great sense for cooperation and collaboration, great listeners as well as great players.

Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they're really not. They're companions - the hero and the sidekick.

The hero of 'Dark Powers' can touch murder victims and read their last memories.

I started off riding motorbikes and at that point my hero was Valentino Rossi.

There is no king or sovereign state That can fix a hero's rate; Each to all is venerable.

You know, when I was a kid, I always thought Id grow up to be a hero.

I never aspired to be a screen hero; all I ever wanted was for people to respect what I do.

To become a hero is simple but to direct a film is far more challenging work.

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

Bruce Forsyth is my hero, and the thought that I'd be in a TV show with him was incredible.

I became a war hero before going on to critical acclaim as a professional victim.

There's actually a big difference between story and character. A great story doesn't make a great movie. A great script, which defines its moments and characters can become a great movie. You can make a movie that makes a lot of money and it may or may not have great story or great characters.

I have no role models. Many heroes. I have an enormous capacity for hero worship.

Every man is a hero or oracle to someone. And that person has enhanced value.

I have fear of the audience and I am responsible for the scenes involving me, be it as a comedian or hero.

The closest modern equivalent to the Homeric hero is the ace fighter pilot.

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

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Truly, there is something to the idea that hero-worship is helpful, provided one worships a winner.