Hero Quotes - page 2

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. (Gertrude Stein)
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. View quote
Joseph Campbell
See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older. View quote
Mickey Spillane
Heroes do not easily tolerate the company of other heroes. View quote
Kenneth Clark
Unfortunate the country that needs heroes! View quote
Bertolt Brecht
I imagine that a hero is a man who does what he can. The others do not do it. View quote
Romain Rolland
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. View quote
Novalis
Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I think it's more fun to play a hero with an edge. View quote
Shawn Ashmore
We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day. (Brad Meltzer)
In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future. View quote
Gustav Stresemann
Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane. View quote
Germaine Greer
On the one hand, the press, television, and movies make heroes of vandals by calling them whiz kids. View quote
Ken Thompson
What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in. View quote
David Lloyd George
America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes. View quote
Gunnar Myrdal
You only need to make one big score in finance to be a hero forever. View quote
Merton Miller
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes. View quote
Edward Gibbon
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. View quote
Christopher Reeve
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare . (George Bernard Shaw)
Pasteur originally conceived the idea of germs and of destroying them. Although this started as a personal thing, it has mushroomed into DDT, killing beetles and worms, resulting in food contamination, much sickness, and trouble. Although he is regarded as hero by modern medicine, Pasteur will be treated in much the same way as a warmonger when he is judged in the spiritual world. View quote
Michio Kushi
Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete. View quote
Joseph Addison
A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion. View quote
Richard E. Byrd
As you get older it is harder to have heroes. View quote
Ernest Hemingway