Quotes About Heroes

Only man has turned away from the law of survival of the fittest, taken up the weak and ailing, and guaranteed their right to survival. So heroes perish, but the weak live on. One measure of a civilisation, in fact, is the percentage of misfits in its society. There's even a political scientist (anonymous) who claims that our modern age is an age of the patient, by the patient, for the patient.

Some Palaeolithic heroes survived in later mythical literature. The Greek hero Herakles, for example, is almost certainly a relic of the hunting period.

We are a race of heroes who have outlived the age of heroes!

As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

Land of lost gods and godlike men.

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.

History is littered with dead good men

I grew up idolizing these men, like Arnold Schwarzenegger. I loved Sly (Stallone). I loved Bruce Willis. These guys embodied everything that action was in the 80s and 90s.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

Where have all the good men gone, and where are all the gods? Where's the street-wise Hercules, to fight the rising odds?

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.

Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.

Too many heroes stepping on too many toes, too many yes-men nodding when they really mean no.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

Mom and Dad are truly my heroes. And I have to say, so is my little brother Robert. He's 11, and he's just the most amazing boy. He's so much like Dad sometimes, it's a bit scary.

Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

I try to give both my heroes and villains an emotional dimensionality which provides the motivation for their actions.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.