1,474 Quotes About Hero

All the Chinese have to do is fly around the Moon and back, and they'll appear to have won the return to the Moon with humans. They could put one person on the surface of the Moon for one day and he'd be a national hero.

In designing Supergirl, I wanted to embrace the past but more importantly, thrust her into the street-style action hero of today,

He was an inspiration, to say the least, ... For all of us. ... He was our hero in a lot of ways.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

even in the darkest of times we have the right to expect some illumination, and ... such illumination may well come less from theories and concepts than from the uncertain, flickering, and often weak light that some men and women, in their lives and their works, will kindle under almost all circumstances and shed over the time-span that was given them on earth ...

The germs of all things are in every heart, and the greatest criminals as well as the greatest heroes are but different modes of ourselves.

I am the hero of Africa.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

The only way to form an army to be confided in, was a systematic discipline, by which means all men may be made heroes.