I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan
124 quotes about heroing follow in order of popularity. Be sure to bookmark and share your favorites!
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
G. K. Chesterton
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.
H. Norman Schwarzkopf
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
Henry David Thoreau
The Hero Factor are my good friends... They are the hottest act in Tulsa.
Rockwell Ripperger
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.
Will Rogers
Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.
Hebrew Proverb
You could get $4 a share and look a hero, or you might get $2 and look silly.
Rickey Ward
It's been 17 months and she has not put a headstone on his grave, ... Why do I see the honor of this American hero, when it should be his own mom?
Deborah Johns
This is not my thing, this hero thing. This is just what anybody else would do. I'm just glad I was there.
Jack Russo
I don't view myself as people have described. I don't think of myself as a hero and certainly not as hidden.
Gerald Jones
Why be a hero in these markets?
Bob Semple
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman
A hero is someone right who doesn't change.
George Foreman
I see it as I was saving the little boy, not to be a hero or all that, because if it was anyone else, they would've done the same thing.
Simeo Smith
She was just awesome. She was just getting to the basket, setting up plays. ... She's my hero. I had to give her a hug after the game.
Fantasia Goodwin
He was a hero before that, ... He was so unselfish, someone who brought out the best in people. ... He made me a better person.
Frank Deangelis
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.
Alexander Chase
(Clark) does not have friends in Iraq, ... He's trying to be an international hero. But he will fall down doing so.
Ridha Jawad
He could have gone back to Saudi Arabia, but he's a madman, he wanted to prove that he's the hero.
Mustafa Mahmoud
It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri (pasionaria)
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.
Mark Sullivan
He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
Mario Puzo
Calculation never made a hero.
John Henry Newman
If we get it, everybody would have been calling [Zook] a hero.
Steve Weatherford
Buffalo was my hero when I was growing up in Waikiki. It was kind of cool to be inducted with him into the Walk of Fame.
David Nuuhiwa
What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.
Jean claude Van Damme
A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.
Romain Rolland
As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.
Bethany Parker
He really was the unsung hero.
Donnie Jones
He's a hero of ours. He's how we want to be.
Derek Loomis
What I have found, the sense of it is that this kid really was a hero.
Bill Newman
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.
Eric Berne
Dale Earnhardt was my hero and when he died I started liking his son.
David White
I didn't have to look very far to see a hero.
Jerry Williams
To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.
Simone Weil
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He died a hero.
Franco Frattini
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
He'd always been our hero.
William Shea
Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.
Rutger Hauer
You're a hero. I'm sorry, I just can't stop crying.
Susan Richardson
John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.
Fay Vincent
I think she's a total hero.
Sherryl Broverman
I am the hero of Africa.
Idi Amin Dada
Maybe some action hero might think it would hurt his career.
William H. Macy
The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.
Charles W. Eliot
Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.
Tommy Franks
Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.
Jean Chretien
One brave deed makes no hero.
John Greenleaf Whittier
My dad was my hero, ... Whatever he did, I did.
Chip Foose
We have heroes in the community young and old. In this case our hero is six years old.
Mayor Kenneth Boswell
He's a pretty inspirational kid -- he's kind of becoming my hero.
John Padilla
We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.
Marilyn Miller
He was an inspiration, to say the least, ... For all of us. ... He was our hero in a lot of ways.
David Allen
When I got into it I realized that it needed Jake Grafton to give it an American center of focus that wouldn't be there without a strong American hero.
Stephen Coonts
A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.
Andrew Bernstein
I feel he should be honored as a hero. He was going to make a career out of the military. He wouldn't even tell us the danger he was in.
Carolyn Howard
He's a war hero, and we really wanted a hometown guy to be our parade marshal.
Ben Haines
Mr. President, ... this is a little boy whose 24-year-old mother was a hero that day.
Jim O'connor
We have a saying in our dialect: When a hero dies in the village, people cannot cry.
Rebecca Garang
A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.
Dana Rohrabacher
The world needs another living hero.
Nancy Lewis
My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not for him, there is no way I would be where I am.
J. Loren Wince
You know he's my hero, and I think he must be your hero, too.
Barbara Lewis
He is absolutely our hero. He always has been and he always will be. He died doing something he strongly believed so strongly in.
Deirdre Ostlund
He veered from hero to villain -- and both were untrue.
David Margolick
I think of this man as a hero.
Randy Redd
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.
Joseph Campbell
A hero is a man who does what he can.
Romain Rolland
Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up.
Jason Cooper
That was one of the saddest moments of my life when I carried him out. Carlos was a hero, my mentor and a friend.
Kevin Barrett
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
Dan King is my hero.
Chris Eyre
They sort of became hero responders. We are very grateful for that.
Jim Beasley
He's my hero. To see him pitch, I couldn't believe it.
Jared Elario
If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.
Alfred P. Sloan
There's no question that he was a hero of the first order.
Chris Good
He's the best. He's the man. He's my son's hero.
David Spears
I understand the hero (of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms) keeps getting in bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way.
Harold Ross
A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley
(Peters) is, without a doubt, a hero in the eyes of my family.
Patrick Corbett
The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.
Andrew Bernstein
It's an honor fighting on his birthday, because of what he did for my idol, my hero, Joe Louis.
Lamon Brewster
If he had retired last year he would have done so as the complete hero, the dominant person.
Jackie Stewart
You're a bit of a hero.
Frank Skinner
A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.
Ramman Kenoun
I'll be using this lecture as an example of community service. You don't have to go to the Gulf Coast to be a hero.
Raymond Frey
They're either the hero or the bum. There's no in-between.
Christy Grady
Bear: Heart of a Hero.
Scott Shields
Secretary-General Takebe and others were in a frenzy to make him a hero.
Satsuki Eda
Pat was a real hero, not what they used him as.
Mary Tillman
I'm no hero. I would have done the same thing for anyone. I told him that if it had happened the next day I wouldn't have been there.
Becky Chittom
But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.
Anna Ayala
I think he is truly a hero.
Jill Johnson
A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gain, but rather, he is the one who acts well when he has nothing to gain and everything to lose.
Arthur Forman
Libertarians and conservatives do regard him as a hero. He's going to be a very influential figure moving forward in Canada, in the US, and abroad.
Michael Cannon
He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.
Pablo Gomez
When he says he loves you, it's genuine. He's a man of character. He's genuine. He's my hero.
Major Parker
She was a pivotal moment. She was a hero.
Anne Cruikshanks
I don't want this to seem like I was a hero, because I wasn't.
Dave Marmon
She certainly put others before herself and to me that is a hero.
Scott Davis
I've got a real hero, and that's Pat Collins. I thank God for Pat Collins and the job that he did, his character and the team of prosecutors.
Scott Willis
Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.
George Moore
They decide they're going to come up here and be a hero.
Carl Voigtlander
He is a silent hero.
David Gore
You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.
Edmund Hillary
Copyright © 2024 Electric Goat Media. All Rights Reserved.