1,474 Quotes About Hero

Neil Young is my hero. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does.

Don Quixote is one that comes to mind in comparison to mine, in that they both involve journeys undertaken by older men. That is unusual, because generally the hero of a journey story is very young.

Inside a soul, there's a hero to discover

I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work.

Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.

One of my unsung heroes is Erich Mendelsohn. I met him when I was a student and he was a cranky old man and very unpleasant. But if you go to his Einstein Tower in Potsdam, Germany you see an enormous intellect at work with a language that was personal and new. It has a sense of urban design and of theater and procession I hadn't seen before.

The world doesn't make any heroes anymore.

He is happy as well as great who needs neither to obey nor to command in order to be something.

The hero's will is not that of his ancestors nor of his society, but his own. This will to be oneself is heroism.