Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stacy Keach

I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course.

Stacie Orrico

We all want heroes and we all want somebody to look up to.

Soren Kierkegaard

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Sheryl Swoopes

My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero,

Neil Peart

I think everything I do has Howard Roark [hero of The Fountainhead] in it, you know, as much as anything. The person I write for is Howard Roark.

Natalie Portman

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk mustaches, they're my heroes.

Taylor Swift

I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second.

Tony Robbins

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Robert A. Heinlein

Heroism' often consists in keeping your head in an emergency and doing the best you can with what you have instead of panicking and being shot in the tail. People who fight this way win more battles than do intentional heroes; a glory hound often throws away the lives of his mates as well as his own.

Riley Keough

I do think we need heroes. It gives people hope and an example to follow.

Tim O'Brien

Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of your own skin, like molting, shedding your own history and your own future, leaving behind everything you ever were or wanted to believed in. You know you're about to die. And it's not a movie and you aren't a hero and all you can do is whimper and wait.

Steven Wright

I like George Carlin's jokes. I like his humor. He's one of my heroes, and I like what he did with talking about everyday things.

Steven Seagal

Action films are great, but an action film that has characters that are compelling and a story that people can care about is something even better. We love to see action heroes that are vulnerable, that are sensitive, that are family people, that are accessible.

Robert Brustein

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Tom Selleck

And besides, because of all she has accomplished, Barbara Jordan has always been a hero of mine

Tom Hiddleston

If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they've all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions - every villain is a hero in his own mind.

Tommy Franks

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

Tom Morello

I have another name for what they're terming whistleblowers, and that's righteous heroes. From Bradley Manning to Snowden. They're people of conscience who are unwilling to turn a blind eye to the crimes of our government. And thank goodness for them.

Tom Harkin

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.

Tom Hanks

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Tom Hardy

I spent my entire experience with Gary [ on Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy] staring at him and not returning any lines because I think he's God. The second time [ on The Dark Knight Rises] I was playing God, so I ignored him. Kicked him a bit, that kind of thing. Gary Oldman is one of my heroes, I did nothing but glean from him.

Tom Hanks

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Tom Brokaw

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

Tom Clancy

If a hero must have an unmarked grave, it should at least be close to where his comrades fell." "Comrades?" "One way or another we all fight for the things we believe in. Doesn't that give us some common ground?

Tim Kaine

When Donald Trump says women should be punished or Mexicans are rapists and criminals or John McCain's not a hero, he is showing you who he is.

Tanith Lee

Tales of heroes end in bliss.

Tamora Pierce

You turned into a hero when I wasn't watching.

Tad Williams

Not everyone can stand up and be a hero, Princess. Some prefer to surrender to the inevitable and salve their consciences with the gift of survival.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

Swami Vivekananda

The earth is enjoyed by heroes

Swami Vivekananda

Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avatâra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries.

Swami Vivekananda

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.