Quotes about hero (1127 quotes, page 12)

“Because he's the hero Gotham deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So we'll hunt him. Because he can take it. Because he's not our hero. He's a silent guardian. A watchful protector.”

movie The Dark Knight

Character Lt. James Gordon

“You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”

movie The Dark Knight

Character Harvey Dent

“The sincere alone can recognize sincerity. Not a Hero only is needed, but a world fit for him;”

Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero As King

World , Sincerity

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”

Christopher Reeve (1952–2004) actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Wisdom , Parting

“You can be a hero, or you can be a zero. And the choice is yours. But we are all watching. The whole world is watching, folks. Choose wisely.”

Donald Trump Jr. (1977) American businessman and son of U.S. President Donald Trump

According to Melania Trump and adult Trump children avoid the spotlight after one of nation's darkest days https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/politics/melania-trump-white-house-capitol-riot/?hpt=ob_blogfooterold posted January 8, 2020

World

“Dedicated to eccentrics, madmen, residents of the Far North — heroes of Russian anecdotes, as well as to all those who died while climbing Mount Everest.”

Viktor Pinchuk (1969)

Dedication of the book
Quotes from books, Afghan prisoner (Russian: Афганский арестант)

“Life is a play acted by dying men,
Where, if its heroes seem to foot it well
And go light-tongued without grimace of pain,
Death will be found anon. And who shall tell
Which part was saddest, or in youth or age,
When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?”

Wilfrid Scawen Blunt (1840–1922) English poet and writer

'Esther, A Young Man's Tragedy" (1892), Sonnet II http://www.sonnets.org/esther.htm

Pain , Light , Youth , Age

“A soldier will return as a hero either with a medal on his chest or a metal in his chest.”

Suraj Sani (1996) Nigerian writer, Spoken word artist

P. 52. https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/10937446-a-soldier-will-return-as-a-hero-either-with-a

“A "hero" is any man who does his job. You a lot of times see headlines that are like, "hero tutor teaches after school", and you're like, yeah.”

John Mulaney (1982) American actor and comedian

New in Town (2012)

School , Time

“We have a lot of heroes. We have Asian heroes, we have Asian American heroes, men, women, of all ages, and not all of them do martial arts. But that doesn't mean that they don't have their own arcs, their own stories, their own subtleties and nuances. And I think that's what's important.”

Simu Liu (1989) Chinese-born Canadian actor

Source: "Simu Liu, the Asian Marvel superhero emerging at a critical time" in NBC Asian America (2 June 2021) https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/simu-liu-asian-marvel-superhero-emerging-critical-time-rcna1071

Art , Thinking , Men , Age

“At this point, we can see that Jesus has been raised by Luke from zero to a hero.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“My hero is a person whose general interests and values really drives them well beyond job security or even popularity.”

Sheyene Gerardi Venezuelan actor and model

Personality

“I suppose there were other institutions in Embassytown where the dynamic of the quotidian sustained—some hospitals, perhaps some schools, perhaps houses where shiftparents most deeply loved the children. Whenever any society dies there must be heroes whose fightback is to not change.”

China Miéville Embassytown

Source: Embassytown (2011), Chapter 15 (p. 213)

Housing , Children , Change , School

“I don't know what a hero is. This business of the captain taking all the credit, ordering someone else and so forth -- that's not it. The men who do the actual fighting, man the guns, they're the guys that really win the war.”

John D. Bulkeley (1911–1996) United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient

Source: "Vice Adm. John D. Bulkeley, 84, Hero of D-Day and Philippines" in The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1996/04/08/us/vice-adm-john-d-bulkeley-84-hero-of-d-day-and-philippines.html (8 April 1996)

Business , War , Fight , Guy

“We all like to believe that our world has clear heroes and villains and that the heroes are going to save us after all, but that’s not the reality.”

Nanfu Wang (1985) director and filmmaker

Source: "It Didn’t Take Long for Me to Feel Empathy: Nanfu Wang on In the Same Breath" in Roger Ebert https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/it-didnt-take-long-for-me-to-feel-empathy-nanfu-wang-on-in-the-same-breath (17 August 2021)

Reality , World

“A hero; in our dark, indifferent and cruel universe is the one who makes life bearable and meaningful for human condition.”

Guity Novin (1944) artist

Source: Facebook Page (2021)

Indifference , Universe , Life

“There are no heroes, just heroic decisions.”

Edward Snowden (1983) American whistleblower and former National Security Agency contractor

Source: Joe Rogan Experience #1368 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efs3QRr8LWw Oct 23, 2019

Decision

“[T]he risk of these sports, and the supposed manliness of facing that risk, is generally put forth as one of their merits. Now I may be very blind and mean-spirited, but the manly sport of foxhunting seems to me not to be manly at all, but to be at once cowardly and fool hardy. It is cowardly as regards the cruelty practised on a victim which cannot defend himself by tormentors who, as far as the victim is concerned, are perfectly safe. It is foolhardy as risking men's lives for no adequate cause. It is manly, it is something much better than manly, when a man sacrifices or risks his life in a good cause. But I can see nothing manly, nothing in any way praiseworthy, in a man risking his life in a bad cause or in no cause at all. When a fox-hunter is suddenly cut off in the midst of his cruelties, I can see nothing in his end at all resembling the end of the martyr who dies for his religion or of the hero who dies for his country. I believe I am unfashionable in thinking so, but I cannot help it.”

Edward Augustus Freeman (1823–1892) English historian (1823-1892)

Source: 'The Morality of Field Sports', The Fortnightly Review (October 1869), quoted in E. A. Freeman, The Morality of Field Sports (1874), p. 24

Country , Thinking , Life , Men

“We don’t have a tradition of masked heroes really anywhere else in the world apart from America.”

Alan Moore (1953) English writer primarily known for his work in comic books

Source: “Fawkes & Robin Hood didn’t wear masks; ‘hero’ anonymity is US shtick going back to KKK – ‘V for Vendetta’ author Alan Moore to RT” https://www.rt.com/usa/537158-alan-moore-rt-interview/, Russia Today, (11 Oct, 2021)
Context: Moore said in an interview with RT’s Sophie Shevardnadze. “I mean, Guy Fawkes, who the ‘V for Vendetta’ mask is based upon – that wasn’t a mask, that was his face,” he said. Ditto for Robin Hood.

World

“The difference between a Hero and an ordinary man is that when the ordinary man comes upon a flaming death swamp full of venomous dragon snakes, he turns around and goes home. The Hero strips down and goes for a swim.”

Jim C. Hines (1974) American writer

Source: The Goblin Quest Series, Goblin Hero (2007), Chapter 4 (p. 60)

Home , Death

“My heroes are those people who want to be individuals but are being forced to be cogs again. In an Empire there are only cogs.”

Anna Politkovskaya (1958–2006) Russian journalist

As quoted in Anna Politkovskaya: Putin, poison and my struggle for freedom https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/anna-politkovskaya-putin-poison-and-my-struggle-for-freedom-535250.html (15 October 2004), The Independent.

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