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Quotes About Hero

All hail, Perseus Jackson," Tyson said. "Hero of Olympus . . . and my big brother!
~ Rick Riordan
But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.
~ Rick Riordan
But you, Percy - you are part god, part human. You live in both worlds. You can be harmed by both, and you can affect both. That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die... They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.
~ Rick Riordan
Seeing them assembled in Tartarus, Percy felt as hopeless as the spirits in the River Cocytus. So what if he was a hero? So what if he did something brave? Evil was always here, regenerating, bubbling under the surface. Percy was no more than a minor annoyance to these immortal beings. They just had to outwait him. Someday, Percy's sons or daughters might have to face them all over again.
~ Rick Riordan
The only difference between a satyr and a faun," I said, "is what we see in them. And what they see in themselves. Plant this tree somewhere special." I looked up at the dryads. "Tend it and make it grow healthy and tall. This was Don the faun, a hero.
~ Rick Riordan
If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear.
~ Kathryn Lasky
So, let me get this straight, he said to me. You save my ass and you're a loser. I stick up for you because of it and I'm a hero. How does that work? I don't know. But it's so sweet.
~ Kelley Armstrong
We don't have time to argue," Daniel said. "I'll be fine--" "But we won't," Sam said. "We need you to get us out of here. It has to be someone else." "And you're volunteering, right?" Corey said. Sam opened her mouth, but nothing came out. "Thought so." Corey turned to us. "I'll go. Play the hero for a change." A forced smile. "I hear chicks really go for that kind of thing.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Moria would set them straight - at the point of her dagger if needed. Ashyn did not care. She had escaped on her own, and everyone who mattered knew that, and that was what would be important in her life - that those she loved truly valued the role she played. And she would continue playing it, working with them, whatever they needed of her. She was a hero ... to those who mattered.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Forget about Batman, Superman, and the Power Rangers, cause I'll be your hero if you're ever in some danger.
~ Coolio
Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.
~ Melanie
The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
~ Heather James, Fire
Saint George, that swing'd the dragon, and e'er sinceSits on his horse back at mine hostess' door.
~ William Shakespeare
The demon woman is a mythological type, and appears either as the companion of the enemy, or as the seductress of the hero; she sleeps with him-or at least promises to-and kills him.
~ Wolfgang Lederer
I don't want to be a strong hero who can save society. I just want to save myself.
~ xingjian gao ii
The basis of drama is ... is the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realizes that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilization and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable. The example Aristotle uses, of course, is Oedipus.
~ David Mamet
Whenever you can, make the product itself the hero of your advertising. If you think the product too dull, I have news for you: there are no dull products, only dull writers.
~ David Ogilvy
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.
~ David Richo
In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, a depression, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition.
~ David Richo
A great movie hero is JOKER. Man, we fucking hate that Batman motherfucker. Anyone who wants to take him down is obviously one of the good guys! So, a sleazy billionaire playboy – a member of the super-rich elite – is supposed to be the hero of the people. Get to fuck!
~ David Sinclair
My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.
~ David Soul
In his dreams, he would be a hero. In his life, he felt like a zero.
~ David Walliams
The man was a hero. He had given his life to save not just his son and Gabz, but all the children of the town.
~ David Walliams
I am a loser in my own plot, but I might be the hero in someone else's plot.
~ Vann Chow