Quotes on Hero

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas….In truth, they are heroes of our time.

If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

The hero wanders, the hero suffers, the hero returns. You are that hero.

Be heroes in an army of construction.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

It requires philosophy and heroism to rise above the opinion of the wise men of all nations and races.

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

The key to the age may be this, or that, or the other, as the young orators describe; the key to all ages is - Imbecility; imbecility in the vast majority of men, at all times, and, even in heroes, in all but certain eminent moments; victims of gravity

To those of you mourn the loss of a loved one today, my heart goes out to you. We remember that the blessings that we enjoy as Americans came at a dear cost. Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we cannot ever fully repay. But we can honor their sacrifice, and we must. We must honor it in our own lives by holding their memories close to our hearts, and heeding the example they set.

War is capitalism with the gloves off and many who go to war know it but they go to war because they don't want to be a hero.

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

. . . until the curtain was rung down on the last act of the drama (and it might have no last act!) he wished the intellectual cripples and the moral hunchbacks not to be jeered at; perhaps they might turn out to be the heroes of the play.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.