Hero Quotes

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

I don't like James Bond. They made him a super hero, but he is just an agent, a human being. In my movies, secret agents are more realistic, I didn't want to portray them in the most glowing colours.

She was in a difficult position being the widow of a great American hero, a role that carried high expectations but she did a credible job of continuing Dr King's dream especially in the face of a changing and often hostile American public.

I've been making products for so long, I have a gut feel for what is right - what will work and what won't. I can tell instantly if it's a hero or a zero.

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine.

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Ruby inherited the Perl philosophy of having more than one way to do the same thing. I inherited that philosophy from Larry Wall, who is my hero actually. I want to make Ruby users free. I want to give them the freedom to choose.

It wasn't until we got over the self pity that we were able to accept suffering as apart of our life with Christ. A man or woman reaches this plane only when he or she ceases to be the hero.

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

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Too many children in foster care are falling through cracks. Be a hero, take the time learn about adoption today.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

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

The way I wanted to write it, is with a hero, or sort of a pure character who was the protagonist. And the antagonists were these demonic evil children, cause when you're a kid, seven or eight years old, and you're looking at the world around you - everything seems black or white, good or bad.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

I love the idea of a movie hero in a thriller who is able to get ahead by just his brilliance, and not with a gun or by being an action hero.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

The hero, the mythical subject, is constructed as human being and as male; he is the active principle of culture, the establisher of distinction, the creator of differences.

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?

Why do you think I write these feminist songs, to try and teach myself to respect myself. You know, it's not because I'm a hero.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

I've never played a hero before so I jumped at the chance.

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.