Quotes on Hero

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

Through adversity we find our heroes.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

The best thing I did was choose the right heroes.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

Marseilles isn't a city for tourists. There's nothing to see. Its beauty can't be photographed. It can only be shared. It's a place where you have to take sides, be passionately for or against. Only then can you see what there is to see. And you realize, too late, that you're in the middle of a tragedy. An ancient tragedy in which the hero is death. In Marseilles, even to lose you have to know how to fight.

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

No man is a hero to his valet. This is not because the hero is no hero, but because the valet is a valet.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.