Quotes About Hero

You are never going to stop me from achieving my goal, Perry. You ought to know that by now. Do you wish to know the definition of a tragic hero?""Not particularly.""A tragic hero is an individual who, with every attempt to restore things to normal, only pushes himself further away from normalcy."She nodded. "That is you, Perry.

He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

Each one's no longer conscious Of the high wall, or the rest: Since the one enduring fortress, Is the soldier's iron breast. If you'd live unconquered, Quickly arm, and fight the real foe: Every wife an Amazon bred, And every child a hero.

I want to be a hero, a small and good kind of hero, even though I know heroes have very short lives.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.

I think you're wrong about the American dream -said Jule. -No, I'm not. Why? -The American dream is to be an action hero. -Seriously? -Americans like to fight wars. We want to change laws or break them (...). We're all about heading out west and grabbing land from people who had it before. Slaughtering the so-called bad guys and fighting the system. That's the American dream.

For the college essay, she wrote that in these stories, being orphaned is a precondition for the making of a hero. She also said those comic book heroes aren't simple heroes, but 'complicated ones who make moral compromises in the same tradition as the orphans in Victorian narratives.

Goal achievement is hero's work.

I confess my pride. I scream inside: You'd better love this man who's given you not just his nervous system but HIS SOUL. You'd better appreciate it. But they don't. They can't. Imprisoned in vanity and sin, they project their needs onto their hero to save themselves. But a hero- and my Dad isn't one-can't save you; only Christ can. Oh I can be righteous when I get going.

While the angels, all pallid and wan,Uprising, unveiling, affirmThat the play is the tragedy, "Man,"And its hero the Conqueror Worm.

edgar rice burroughs

Yet the son ?Seemed worthy, for his parts were of that mould Oft-failing Nature strives to join in one, ?And shape a hero,—pure and wise and bold: In arts and arms the wonder of his peers, The flower of princes, prince of cavaliers;

You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Perhaps no politician could have pleased him, for his hero was the saintly Mahatma Gandhi.

Faster than a speeding bullet, more powerful than a locomotive, able to leap tall buildings at a single bound—look, up there in the sky, it's a bird, it's a plane, it's Superman!

He understands that people will want to hear something, but not the truth: they'll want a story of perseverance and pluck, good overcoming evil, a homecoming song about a hero who brought light into dark places.

Caesar intended to return to Rome, a conquering hero, and stand for consul for 48 B.C.

A Bollywood hero, for most people, has been a Raj, a Rahul or a Prem... it's now a part of the psyche.

Quite simply, we're re-telling the very first adventures of 'Daredevil', as originally seen in DD #1-6, but in a modern style and setting - being faithful without being slavish. And I'm using those adventures as a framework to delve into Matt's psyche a little, as he learns to become a hero.

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

I've never met Colin Kaepernick, but he's a hero of mine. I'm in awe that he took it upon himself to publicly promote the American values of life and liberty that we all cherish.

I did a movie with Jamie Foxx that was kind of action, and, you know, Jim Hopper's a little bit action; he does throw a good punch.

If you look at Indian cinema, it has always been about the 'hero.' So it is not just a characteristic of the Kannada film industry in particular. But one of the reasons to explain the 'hero-centrism' in our industry could be the fact that the audience here really enjoys the action sequences and the 'punch' dialogues.