Quotes About Heroes

I think what we're lacking in society, not only in the U.S. but also around the world, is to find heroes once again and to celebrate these kind of people.

I remember watching when D-Wade and LeBron were here playing for the Heat. I remember watching them play the Lakers with Kobe. So I just was able to watch those games growing up and really watch my favorite players.

I liked the Beatles because there was so much melody. Jimi Hendrix is still one of my heroes.

Everyone I've worked with - in my eyes - they are mentors and heroes.

I was acting with all my childhood heroes: Meryl Streep, Saoirse Ronan, all of those amazing women.

Messi and Ronaldinho were the two players who were my idols when I was young.

I came out of high school, where my heroes were, like, Michael Jordan and a lot of local rugby players - and on the movie front, it was Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone.

The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that fail to give them that.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! ~Maya Angelou

In the Gulag Archipelago there are no heroes or villains. No prince or pauper. It is the most democratic of all societies. Everyone is an inmate.

So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and people who were generous, and people who comforted one another.

The men the Americans now call 'the Greatest Generation' were not all the selfless heroes they are often portrayed to be: a proportion of them were also thieves, plunderers and abusers of the worst kind.

Strong natures – or should one rather call them weak? - do not like to be reminded of this [their unconscious nature], but prefer to think of themselves as heroes.

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.

Perhaps this was a secret that heroes don't share: Courage comes from doing common things.

Just when we think we have our own stories figured out," she says, "heroes arise in the most unexpected places.

Idolizing heroes and falling for their seductive appeal is normal in America, but what is a mild drug to most is a poison for some people.

You know, the portrait gallery is full of paintings of men who've killed those who have wronged them," Elsinora said. "But they're not called villains. They're called heroes.

There is no such thing as genuine truth, only received truth. The winners write the history books in all cultures, as it serves their advantage. Parents tell their children the stories which paint them as heroes. Enlightened self-interest is the best that anyone can hope for.

Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.

Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life... It would be cliche to say my dad, my granddad. I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

I don't think my competition is with the heroes. I don't think I'm competing with anyone. I don't mean to sound Zen, but genuinely, when I stopped competing with anything is when I started enjoying my work, and that brought out the best in me. I'm living in a universe of my own, and I'm enjoying that. I love to appreciate other people's work.

I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs.

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.