1,474 Quotes About Hero

The true hero is flawed. The true test of a champion is not whether he can triumph, but whether he can overcome obstacles - preferably of his own making - in order to triumph.

Fans like their heroes simple. I'm supposed to stick out my tongue twenty-four hours a day and do nothing else.

It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.

Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.

It is in disaster, not success, that the heros and the bums really get sorted out.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Unless we consent to lack the common things which men call success, we shall hardly become heroes or saints, philosophers or poets.

It is not heroes that make history, but history that makes heroes.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.