Quotes About Heroes

And what Plutarch taught them is this: Heroes care. True heroism, as the ancients understood, isn't about strength, or boldness, or even courage. It's about compassion.

The heroes of the past are untouchable, protected forever by the fortress door of time—

As I said, history is written by the victors. The truth is, the villains were less villainous, and the heroes less heroic, than you've been told.

Scarface, Boxer, and Rambo. She couldn't have gotten Winkin', Blinkin', and Nod? she wondered with a desperate kind of hysteria. Moe, Larry, and Curly? The Three Amigos? Rambo tugged a length of rope out of his hip pocket, handed his rifle to Boxer and grabbed her wrist.

We are drawn to the Renaissance because of the hope for black uplift and interracial empathy that it embodied and because there is a certain element of romanticism associated with the era's creativity, its seemingly larger than life heroes and heroines, and its most brilliantly lit terrain, Harlem, USA.

We believe in the living spirit and good deeds of heroes, not in their mistakes.

Politicians are heroes too. You can even find their names in major roads and highways.

Sometimes it is years before we can see who are the heroes in an affair and who are the victims.

That's what heroes did. They ran straight toward danger and didn't ever give up.

Sing, goddess, the wrath of Peleus' son Achilles, a destroying wrath which brought upon the Achaeans myriad woes, and sent forth to Hades many valiant souls of heroes.

Power changes everything till it is difficult to say who are the heroes and who the villains.

I grew up on '80s action movies... Jean Claude Van Damme, Schwarzenegger, Stallone... If there were ever some opportunity to do that, it'd be great.

I looked up to action heroes such as Bruce Lee, Chuck Norris, and Jean-Claude van Damme because I liked the attitude and determination they portrayed.

When I was younger my idols were Marco van Basten and Ruud Gullit.

I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later.

Even in 2014, when romance heroes are as varied as their genre, somewhere in them you can still always find the alpha male.

Everyone likes a bit of variety. I'm sure none of my readers only want to read about anti-heroes or villainous protagonists any more than they only want to read about square-jawed heroes doing the right thing. I just write characters than entertain me and hope they'll be ones that other people want to read about, too.

The mythology began here. On the day. At the moment. Only nobody knew it. As the years passed and the legend grew, it became an increasingly daunting challenge to separate fact from fiction; giant from gnat. That's what happens when we anoint our heroes with nicknames and expectations and an unusual largeness generally reserved for skyscrapers and grand canyons.

The world of a borderline, like that of a child, is split into heroes and villains. A child emotionally, the borderline cannot tolerate human inconsistencies and ambiguities; he cannot reconcile another's good and bad qualities into a constant, coherent understanding of that person. At any particular moment, one is either "good" or "evil"; there is no in-between, no gray area. Nuances and shadings are grasped with great difficulty, if at all. Lovers

Well, here's something you should know: heroes are willing to pause their own lives to help you.

I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism