Quotes About Hero

Every time I think about a girl to motivate me, I think about Grimes. She's one of my heroes.

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted or believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

You need some ambition. What big ambition did you have, apart from wantin to be a hero? Nothin. I just wanted to be a good man. That's all I want.

A hero doesn't seek death, but neither does a hero let the possibility of violent death deter resolute action toward the purpose at hand.

Gelos is the only force in the cosmos who stands between the gods and total universal domination, because only laughter and a sense of the absurd makes it possible for human beings to dismiss the gods as a figment of the imagination; whereas if Gelos ever finds a hero brave and strong enough to protect him from the gods, he will be able to rule the whole

A hero, Max said. A weirdness-haunted victim of circumstance who spends his days looking for things. Max grinned. That's what I just said.

I sincerely hope, that you will grow up to be both a hero and a magician - brave and clever, though there's excellent grounds for saying the two qualities are mutually exclusive. But what the hell.

I'm an outlaw, not a hero. I never intended to rescue you. We're our own dragons as well as heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

He worked too hard, smiled too little and dined as one indifferent to both flavor and fate; he clearly was a hero in need of rescue by a princess.

That princess cannot expect a happy ending who has been rescued by the dragon.

Fairy tales and myths are dominated by accounts of rescued princesses, she reasoned. Isn't it about time that a princess returned the favor? Leigh-Cheri had a vision of the princess as hero.

Often, there may be a culture of a hidden reward system that encourages heroics and a "cowboy culture". For instance, one person may work throughout the night for an entire weekend fighting a fire and get rewarded as the hero who saved the day. What is overlooked is that if one person can save the entire boat, one person can probably sink it, too.

More often than not, a hero's most epic battle is the one you never see; it's the battle that goes on within him or herself.

Batman has an impeccable moral compass, he's clever and mysterious, and when fucktards get sassy, he punches them in the face.

Oh, Draven. You're my hero too! If not for you, that mean old boar would have eaten me alive. (Simon) Get off me, you nimble-pated gelding. (Draven)

The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.

The next time you face a skeptical audience, paint a picture of the villain before you introduce your product or service—the conquering hero. The villain/hero narrative simplifies the problem your idea solves and, if you use simple words, you might be surprised at just how quickly your idea catches on.

Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.

The hero's achievement, in short, is to affirm life.

I KILLED TWO PEOPLE FOR YOU. I'M A LOVER. A HERO. THE OPPOSITE OF A PSYCHOPATH.

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she's a hero.

John Barry was my hero when I was about 13. His scores to the James Bond movies were the scores of my life back then.