Quotes About Hero

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

While the cowboy is our favorite American hero - the quintessential man - most of us see the cowgirl as a child who will grow up someday and be something else.

making a child into the family hero—the light all others depend upon—is a form of trauma.

He had told me before, but that night in the truck it hit home: Steve lived for wildlife and he would die for wildlife. He came by his convictions sincerely, from the bottom of his heart. He was more than just my husband that night. He was my hero.

He was more than just my husband that night. He was my hero.

I owe a huge debt to Anaïs Nin, because I fell into her diaries, essays, and collected letters in my Twenties and Thirties like a fish falling into water. She was, in some ways, a deeply flawed human being, and perhaps she makes a strange kind of hero for someone like me, committed to the ethical and spiritual dimensions of my craft as well as to the technical ones, but a hero and strong influence she remains nonetheless. Source: Her blog .

Kissing a new hero isn't acceptable to me, especially when it's not necessary.

Every character needs an adversary - one who is both challenging and a contrast for the hero. The best adversaries reveal something about the character they're contrasting.

I loved the idea of the Nerd as Hero, which Ghost World also had.

You get films like 'Baahubali' once in your life. And Amrendra Bahubali is a character that I can never forget.

The idea of a new hero for a new day sang to me.

Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.

At every step in his life, DiMaggio was what New Yorkers wanted in a hero.

The nice thing about 'Farscape' is that you got to be the good guy and still do the bad guy things.

He was a warrior, a modern-day white knight.

Freedom was my first great desire. The second, which remains hidden within me to this day, tormenting me, was the desire for sanctity. Hero together with saint: such is mankind's supreme model.

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human.

Because it was right. Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was right.

He was a hero, and never to be forgotten. And today, as he would want, as must be done, a new leader comes.

Love, he thought. It could make you a fool or a hero. Or both at once.

Seth had mulled it over for a while and had decided that's what a hero was. Somebody who just did what was

It also creates a problematic reflection: If a villain is the person who knows the most and cares the least, then a hero is the person who cares too much without knowing anything. It makes every hero seem like Forrest Gump. But it's not the intelligence that people dislike; it's the dispassionate application of that intelligence. It's the calculation. It's someone who views life as a game where the rules are poorly written and designed for abuse.

In Western culture, virtually everything is understood through the process of storytelling, often to the detriment of reality. When we recount history, we tend to use the life experience of one person — the "journey" of a particular "hero," in the lingo of the mythologist Joseph Campbell — as a prism for understanding everything else.

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.