1,474 Quotes About Hero

From Jesse James to Charles Manson, the media, since their inception, have turned criminals into folk heroes.

If you die and enough people are watching, then you become a martyr, you become a hero, you become well-known.

Such is the content of the mental life of the Hemingway hero and the good guy in general. Every day he gets beaten into a servile pulp by his own mechanical reflexes, which are constantly busy registering and reacting to the violent stimuli which his big, noisy, kinesthetic environment has provided for his unreflective reception.

You don't have to do those things. You don't have to become a hero, Seth.

I'm not Catholic but the Virgin Mary fascinates me because she's like a folk hero.

If one of my heroes comes to me and says, 'Do you want to work on something?' I just say, 'Yes.' I don't ask for details; I don't expect to get paid anything. I just love working with my heroes.

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.

The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.