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source: Abigail Adams, John Adams, L. H. Butterfield, Marc Friedlaender, Mary-Jo Kline (1975). “The Book of Abigail and John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family, 1762-1784”, p.153, UPNE

topic: Hero, Mean, Vanity, Statesmen, Early Education

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Hero, Heart, Character, Contending

If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.

- Abigail Adams

topic: Women, Hero, Mean

A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Hero, Long, Honor

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

- Abraham Maslow

topic: Wise, Hero, Saint

Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The martyr band That hallowed our land With the blood they shed in a tide for us?

- Abram Joseph Ryan

source: Abram Joseph Ryan, John Moran (1896). “Poems ...”

topic: Hero, Sleep, Blood

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

- Adam Baldwin

source: Interview with Steve Heisler, tv.avclub.com. February 2, 2009.

topic: Hero, Men, Guy, Cinematic

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

- Adam Baldwin

topic: Hero, Long, Firefighter, Electrician

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.

- Adam Brody

topic: Hero, Voice, Guy, Voice Over

You are truly your own hero in running. It is up to you to have the responsibility and self-discipline to get the job done.

- Adam Goucher

topic: Running, Jobs, Hero

I'm convinced many of America's heroes are public school teachers and administrators. Many of these people do what they do because of their faith.

- Adam Hamilton

source: "Put God Back in Public Schools?" by Adam Hamilton, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 7, 2013.

topic: Teacher, Hero, School, Administrators

I was a huge Beatles fan. The Stones, Dylan. Later on, I got into Stevie Wonder, and Bill Withers - he's one of my heroes. Al Green, too.

- Adam Levine

topic: Hero, Fans, Green

In his fifty-six years he was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator â€“ perhaps even a god â€“ as well as a husband, father, lover and adulterer. Few fictional heroes have ever done as much as Caius Julius Caesar.

- Adrian Goldsworthy

source: Adrian Goldsworthy (2013). “Caesar: The Life Of A Colossus”, p.14, Hachette UK

topic: Husband, Father, Hero

Men who have sacrifice their well-being, and even their lives, for the cause of truth or the public good, are, from an empirical point of view - which scorn ("fait fi", Fr.) virtue and altruism - regarded as insane or fools; but, from a moral standpoint, they are heros who do honour ("qui honorent", Fr.) humanity.

- African Spir

source: "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 38), 1937.

topic: Hero, Sacrifice, Men, Public Good

My heroines are part of me and my heroes are part of what I'd like to know.

- Agnes de Mille

topic: Hero, Heroines, My Hero

These are nonviolent people who have lost their freedom simply because they expressed their ideas.... In truth, they are heroes of our time.

- Ai Weiwei

topic: Hero, Ideas, People

We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.

- Aiden Wilson Tozer

topic: Hero, Remember

The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

- Akira Kurosawa

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Real, Believe, Hero, Real Heroes

It feels wonderful to be go back to the 1940s and recreate the whole era through my clothes, voice and body language. I am tired of playing the larger-than-life hero.

- Akshay Kumar

topic: Hero, Tired, Voice

Ralph Nader is a hero. I know Ralph, and I call him up occasionally. He's helped me out on a couple of occasions when I've given speeches to corporations where he'd have a good... He'd give me some good information.

- Al Franken

topic: Couple, Hero, Giving, Good Information

Political thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-sa What I said: â€œPolitical thriller? International thriller? Financial thriller? Whatever you call it, The Ascendant is smart, edgy, fast-paced storytelling at its best. Its unlikely hero, Garrett Reilly, reminded me of a young Jack Reacher as a tech-savvy bond analyst. Drew Chapman is a debut novelist to watch.

- Alafair Burke

topic: Smart, Hero, Political, Debut, Fast Paced

Character assassination is at once easier and surer than physical assault; and it involves far less risk for the assassin. It leaves him free to commit the same deed over and over again, and may, indeed, win him the honors of a hero in the country of his victims.

- Alan Barth

source: "The Rights of Free Men: An Essential Guide to Civil Liberties". Book by Alan Barth, 1984.

topic: Country, Hero, Character, Character Assassination, Assassination

Heroes are important not only because they symbolize what we believe to be important, but because they also convey universal truths about personal self-discovery and self-transcendence, one's role in society, and the relation between the two.

- Alan Hirsch

topic: Hero, Believe, Discovery, Universal Truth

It is vital to see ourselves as part of an ongoing journey started by our heroes in the Scriptures.

- Alan Hirsch

topic: Hero, Journey, Ongoing

There's no hall of fame for that working class hero, no statue carved out of stone. And his greatest reward is the love of a woman and his children.

- Alan Jackson

source: Song: Working Class Hero

topic: Children, Work, Hero, Working Class Hero, Working Class

From the time of the Revolutionary War, when citizens stood forward to defend their liberties against the depredations of tyranny, all the way through Civil War, through the great World Wars, this nation has been defended by the tradition of common ordinary folks who come from behind the plow, come from the store-clerking, come from the classrooms to get on the battlefields - ordinary citizens turned into heroes in defense of their liberty, because that's the potential of freedom.

- Alan Keyes

topic: War, Hero, Liberty, Ordinary Citizens

The essence of America lies not in the headlined heroes...but in the everyday folks who live and die unknown, yet leave their dreams as legacies

- Alan Lomax

topic: Dream, Lying, Hero

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

- Alan Moore

source: "V for Vendetta". Comic book series by Alan Moore, 1982-1986.

topic: Life, Hero, Cheer Up, Vendetta

The Bible NEVER flatters its heroes. It tells us the truth about each one of them in order that against the background of human breakdown and failure we may magnify the grace of God and recognize that it is the delight of the Spirit of God to work upon the platform of human impossibilities.

- Alan Redpath

source: Alan Redpath (2004). “The Making of a Man of God (Alan Redpath Library): Lessons from the Life of David”, p.6, Baker Books

topic: Hero, Order, Grace

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

- Alan Seeger

source: Alan Seeger (2001). “Poems”

topic: Death, Hero, Doors

Black History Month is dedicated to heroes that paved the way for Black people. It's a month that's very imperative because it gives those who lack the knowledge of our heroes a chance to gain insight. It's not just about the month, it's about the years that it took for us to get to this one month and it's beyond placing a value on how much Black History Month really means to me.

- Alana Beard

topic: Hero, Mean, Years

The absurd hero's refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.

- Albert Camus

topic: Hero, Passion, Live In The Present

Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?

- Albert Claude

topic: Hero, Men, Cells, Amoeba, Social Behavior

To be a hero means being the author of your own myth.

- Alberto Villoldo

topic: Hero, Mean, Myth

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Hero, Son, Thinking

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

- Alethea Kontis

source: Alethea Kontis (2012). “Enchanted”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Hero, Impossible, Nothing Is Impossible

Aral the Jack, formerly the noble Aral Kingslayer, is the best kind of hero.

- Alex Bledsoe

topic: Hero, Noble, Kind

I have always been fascinated by the concept of the villain and the hero being in one person.

- Alex Kapranos

topic: Hero, Villain, Persons

Being an old radical, I like films like Spartacus. I could relate to the hero.

- Alex North

topic: Hero, Film, Spartacus

Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.

- Alex Tabarrok

topic: Hero, Mean, Self

Like I've said before, so many times before, I'm not a good person, I'm not a hero. I'm a criminal, a liar, a cheat, a killer. It was them or me and I wanted to live.

- Alexander Gordon Smith

source: Alexander Gordon Smith (2010). “Escape from Furnace 2: Solitary”, p.132, Faber & Faber

topic: Liars, Hero, Criminals

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

- Alexander Hamilton

source: Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.87, Rowman & Littlefield

topic: Hero, Patriotic, Bravery, Acts Of Bravery, Acts Of Heroism

Death is the fate no one can escape. The question, then, is, How does one die? A person can die like a hero or like a coward. The difference is that the hero can face death without fear, whereas the coward can't.

- Alexander Lowen

topic: Death, Hero, Fate

I would describe a hero as a person who has no fear of life, who can face life squarely.

- Alexander Lowen

topic: Fear, Hero, Faces

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Fall, Hero, Eye

In death a hero, as in life a friend!

- Alexander Pope

topic: Hero, Dying

But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

- Alexander Pushkin

topic: Hero, Men, Feelings

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

- Alfred de Vigny

topic: Children, Hero, Monsters

In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.

- Alfred Marshall

topic: Hero, People, Firefighter, Enchanting

The big stars I felt a kinship with were never the romantic leads. It wasn't Steve McQueen or Robert Redford - it was people like Walter Matthau and Anthony Quinn. My big hero was Tommy Cooper.

- Alfred Molina

topic: Stars, Hero, People, Quinn, Mcqueen

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

- Alfred North Whitehead

topic: Courage, Hero, Bravery, True Courage, Bravery And Fear

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

- Alfred P. Sloan

topic: Hero, Heroism, Ends

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists.

- Alfred Rosenberg

source: "The Myth of the Twentieth Century". Book by Alfred Rosenberg, p. 5, 1930.

topic: Hero, Artist, Blood

Each character I play I approach differently and separately. I think Marigold is a simpler character for a sweet little movie, and I'm excited to be part of it. In terms of Heroes it's been such an amazing journey on that show. I love working on it and at this point I know I'm coming to Asia and some of the other cast are going to Europe for the world tour to release the DVD.

- Ali Larter

topic: Sweet, Hero, Character, Marigolds

Americans ... do not naturally apply the term "bourgeois" to themselves, or to anyone else for that matter. They do like to call themselves middle class, but that does not carry with it any determinate spiritual content. ... The term "middle class" does not have any of the many opposites that bourgeois has, such as aristocrat, saint, hero, or artist all good.

- Allan Bloom

topic: Spiritual, Hero, Artist

You should never meet your heroes. Paul Newman... I was so excited about meeting him, but he turned up in shell suit bottoms, slippers, and a jumper. He was just so worn out and old, he wanted to go home.

- Allen Carr

topic: Hero, Home, Shells, Jumpers

Every time that a people which has long crouched in slavery and ignorance is moved to its lowest depths there appear monsters and heroes, prodigies of crime and prodigies of virtue.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Hero, Ignorance, Long

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

topic: Hero, Race, Firefighter

MYTHOLOGY, n. The body of a primitive people's beliefs concerning its origin, early history, heroes, deities and so forth, as distinguished from the true accounts which it invents later.

- Ambrose Bierce

topic: Hero, People, Body

He who allows himself to be arrested for a crime he did not commit will be expelled from the party, but if he resists and comes to us on a stretcher, he is a hero.

- Aminu Kano

source: Goddy Emeka Ejiofor, Aminu Kano (2002). “Mallam Aminu Kano: a political phenomenon”

topic: Party, Hero, Resistance

Man's activity consists in either a making or doing. Both of these aspects of the active life depend for their correction upon the contemplative life (that is, the Hero).

- Ananda Coomaraswamy

topic: Life, Hero, Men, Contemplative, Active Life

In the US. Infantry Manual published during World War II, the soldier was told what to do if a live grenade fell into the trench where he and others were sitting: to wrap himself around the grenade so as to at least save the others. (If no one "volunteered," all would be killed, and there were only a few seconds to decide who would be the hero.

- Anatol Rapoport

source: Anatol Rapoport's statement (1988) as quoted in William Poundstone "Prisoner's Dilemma", 1992.

topic: War, Hero, Soldier, Infantry

I remember a table in BarchesterTowers that had more character than the combined heroes of three recent novels I've read.

- Anatole Broyard

source: 1974 Aroused by Books.

topic: Hero, Character, Three

I didn't picture myself as even a grandmaster, to say nothing of aspiring to the chess crown. This was not because I was timid - I wasn't - but because I simply lived in one world, and the grandmasters existed in a completely different one. People like that were not really even people, but like gods or mythical heroes.

- Anatoly Karpov

topic: Hero, People, Different

A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is sensitive; or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.

- Andrea Dworkin

source: "Our Blood". Book by Andrea Dworkin, 1976.

topic: Art, Hero, Thinking, Being A Hero, Discs

Men are rapists, batterers, plunderers, killers; these same men are religious prophets, poets, heroes, figures of romance, adventure, accomplishment, figures ennobled by tragedy and defeat. Men have claimed the earth, called it 'Her'. Men ruin Her. Men have airplanes, guns, bombs, poisonous gases, weapons so perverse and deadly that they defy any authentically human imagination.

- Andrea Dworkin

topic: Religious, Hero, Airplane, Radical Feminist

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

- Andrew Bernstein

topic: Struggle, Hero, Men

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

- Andrew Bernstein

topic: Hero, Needs, Undaunted, Undefeated

When Shakespeare begins his exposition thus he generally at first makes people talk about the hero, but keeps the hero himself for some time out of sight, so that we await his entrance with curiosity, and sometimes with anxiety.

- Andrew Coyle Bradley

topic: Hero, Sight, People

I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

- Andrew Davidson

source: Andrew Davidson (2008). “The Gargoyle”, p.400, Canongate Books

topic: Hero, Soul, Enough

As for suspense, I like to write books that draw you into the hero's plight from the opening pages, where people put their lives on the line for something - a belief, a family member, the truth.

- Andrew Gross

topic: Hero, Book, Writing, Family Members

Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

- Andrew Gross

topic: Crazy, Book, Hero

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

- Andrew Solomon

source: Andrew Solomon (2014). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hero, Dragons

When I was younger, not being accepted made me enraged, but now, I am not inclined to dismantle my history. If you banish the dragons, you banish the heroes-and we become attached to the heroic strain in our personal history.

- Andrew Solomon

source: Andrew Solomon (2012). “Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

topic: Hero, Dragons, Conformity, Being Accepted

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: Hero, People, Journalism

Evil is a matter of choice. Those people who have been victimized and refuse to imitate their oppressors are in my mind the greatest heroes we have.

- Andrew Vachss

topic: Hero, People, Evil

The unsung heroes of the civil rights movement were always the wives and the mothers.

- Andrew Young

topic: Mother, Hero, Rights, Civil Rights Movement, Unsung Hero

You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to any of your heroes. Become what you wish to be.

- Andy Biersack

source: Twitter post from Jul 12, 2012

topic: Hero, Numbers, Wish

Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

- Andy Biersack

topic: Real, Book, Hero

A great brand starts with a hero product.

- Andy Dunn

topic: Hero, Brands

When have you heard a story about the hero dying for the villain?

- Andy Mineo

topic: Hero, Dying, Stories

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what to say.

- Andy Partridge

topic: Football, Hero, Scotland, Football Match

I don't think the Hulk is a superhero. He's the first Marvel character who is a tragic monster. Really an anti-hero.

- Ang Lee

topic: Hero, Character, Thinking, Anti Hero

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

- Anita Baker

topic: Hero, Issues, Generations, Heroes And Heroines

Existentialism is about being a saint without God; being your own hero, without all the sanction and support of religion or society.

- Anita Brookner

topic: Philosophical, Hero, Support

You have to look at leadership through the eyes of the followers and you have to live the message. What I have learned is that people become motivated when you guide them to the source of their own power and when you make heroes out of employees who personify what you want to see in the organization.

- Anita Roddick

source: Anita Roddick (1994). “Body and soul: profits with principles, the amazing success story of Anita Roddick & the Body Shop”, Three Rivers Press

topic: Leadership, Hero, Eye, Through The Eyes, Trailblazing

This is the way we win over our enemies, not with bigger weapons, or faster ships, but with human courage, ingenuity, and sacrifice. Don't lose hope. We've faced the darkness before-it has nothing new to teach us. As we go about our lives, let us remember the example Dr. Navarro set for us. At the right time, anyone can be a hero.

- Ann Aguirre

topic: Hero, Sacrifice, Winning, Don't Lose Hope, Nothing New

What can I do now? What am I to become? How can I live in this world I'm condemned to but can't endure? They couldn't stand it either, so they made a world of their own. Well, they have each other's company, and they are heroes, whereas I'm quite alone, and have none of the qualities essential to heroism - the spirit, the toughness, the dedication. I'm back where I was as a child, solitary, helpless, unwanted, frightened.

- Anna Kavan

topic: Children, Hero, Dedication, Unwanted, I'm Back

It is better to arm and strengthen your hero, than to disarm and enfeeble your foe.

- Anne Bronte

topic: Hero, Arms, Foe

Are you hero enough to unite yourself to one whom you know to be suspected and despised by all around you, and identify your interests and your honor with hers?

- Anne Bronte

topic: Hero, Honor, Enough

I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

- Anne Rice

topic: Hero, Thinking, Doctors, Van Helsing, Mummy

My heart right now is totally connected to a book called The Servant of the Bones, which is not in any way connected with vampires or witches. It's about a new hero, a ghost, who really doesn't particularly like the job that he's been given. I'm in love with this hero and in love with his dilemma.

- Anne Rice

topic: Jobs, Book, Hero

We would make our heroes shallow.... We would make them brittle. It is they who must remind us of the true meaning of strength.

- Anne Rice

topic: Hero, Shallow

'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.

- Annie Besant

topic: Easter, Hero, Moon, Calculating, Easter Day

I'm not interested in the heroes or the villains. I'm interested in playing people.

- Anson Mount

source: "To Hell and Back with Anson Mount". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.

topic: Hero, People, Villain

I think all of us have a hero and a villain in us.

- Anson Mount

source: "Anson Mount Talks Hell on Wheels Season 2, the Best Part of the Job, Walking the Line Between Hero and Villain and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2012.

topic: Hero, Thinking, Villain

The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

- Anthony Minghella

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: War, Hero, Lessons

Be sure not to discuss your hero's state of mind. Make it clear from his actions.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Hero, Mind, Action

To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.

- Anton Chekhov

topic: Hero, Men, People, Spiteful

I am not an action hero. That is not the only thing I did in my career. Many people know me because of my work with Pedro AlmodÃ³var, or theater or films that I have done, aside from that. But, that was a part of my career that I embrace. I loved movies like Zorro and Desperado and The 13th Warrior, and other movies like that, that I have done and that contain some action, but it's not the only thing that I do.

- Antonio Banderas

topic: Hero, Warrior, Careers, Zorro, Action Heroes

I was never built to play the hero. Physically or emotionally... And they're not as rewarding to play. At least for me.

- Antony Sher

topic: Hero, Play

Cinema is much more than heroes and villains.

- Anurag Kashyap

topic: Hero, Cinema, Heroes And Villains

Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

- Armstrong Williams

topic: Children, Work, Hero, Working Class Hero

Aren't they all heroes-our cats who train us, keep us and put up with us? For these accomplishments alone, they deserve medals.

- Arnold Hano

topic: Hero, Cat, Accomplishment

I am absolutely ecstatic about it, ... To say you are one of the 50 favorite villains and one of the 50 favorite heroes in the history of American motion pictures, that is unbelievable, and I felt very honored.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Hero, Villain, Motion Pictures

As a kid I always idolized the winning athletes. It is one thing to idolize heroes. It is quite another to visualize yourself in their place. When I saw great people, I said to myself: I can be there.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Sports, Hero, Athlete, Great Bodybuilding, Idolized

If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.

- Arnold Schwarzenegger

topic: Funny Life, Hero, Red, Action Heroes

I became a hero to everyone because I didn't take dialysis and was still alive.

- Art Buchwald

topic: Hero, Alive, Dialysis

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

- Arthur Ashe

source: "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

topic: Courage, Hero, Army, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Remembrance

To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The surrender of decision, the unquestioning submission to leadership, the prostration of the average man before the Great Man -- these are the diseases of heroism, and they are fatal to human dignity. History amply shows that it is possible to have heroes without turning them into gods. And history shows, too, that when a society, in flight from hero worship, decides to do without great men at all, it gets into troubles of its own.

- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

topic: Hero, Men, Average, Prostration, Hero Worship

Every generation of children has its private hero.

- Arthur Smith

topic: Children, Hero, Generations

Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever after, and the ending seemed indisputable, definitive. No questions asked about how long love or happiness lasts in that 'forever' that can be divided into lifetimes, years, months. Even days

- Arturo Pérez-Reverte

source: Arturo Pérez-Reverte (1996). “The Club Dumas”, Harcourt

topic: Lying, Hero, Years, Long Love, Questions Asked

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will help set you free.

- Assata Shakur

source: Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.196, Zed Books

topic: Hero, Giving, Needs, True Hero

It doesnt matter about money and fame and whatever. I really dont care about that. My thing is, Im happy that Im able to have kids have a hero and have someone that they can look up to.

- Atticus Shaffer

topic: Hero, Kids, Dont Care, Money And Fame

Tina Fey is one of my heroes.

- Aubrey Plaza

topic: Hero, Fey, My Hero

I am well aware that there is such a great craving in man for heroism and the heroic, and that hero worship forms not a small motif in his complex. I am also aware that, unless man believes in his own heroism and the heroism of others, he cannot achieve much or great things. We must, however, take proper care that we do not make a fetish of this cult of hero-worship, for then we will turn ourselves into votaries of false gods and prophets.

- Aung San

source: Presidential address to the first Congress of the AFPFL, January 20, 1946.

topic: Believe, Hero, Men, Motifs, False Gods

Even if I turned myself in, it wouldn't change anything. It wouldn't make me one of them. I knew that when I got my powers, but really I knew it before then. I learned it as a child on my first day of school, on the warm rainy streets of Bangkok, and in college. If you're different you always know it, and you can't fix it even if you want to. What do you do when you find out your heart is the wrong kind? You take what you're given, and be the hero you can be. Hero to your own cold, inverted heart.

- Austin Grossman

topic: Children, Hero, Heart, Bangkok, Inverted

With 'Invincible', I wanted to create my own version of the Marvel or DC universe, with my own heroes and villains.

- Austin Grossman

topic: Hero, Villain, Invincible, Heroes And Villains

The other thing is we have an incredible villain. And we worked very hard to have villains that are connected to the hero. They have an effect, an emotional effect. They never become out-of-this-world, crazy villains.

- Avi Arad

topic: Crazy, Hero, Emotional

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Real, Hero, Fire, Inspirational Addiction Recovery, Inspirational Drug Recovery

Do not let the hero in your soul perish...

- Ayn Rand

topic: Inspirational, Hero, Soul

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

- Ayn Rand

topic: Lonely, Hero, Frustration

I felt my country should do more for its children. Its children are not born gangsters. In fact, they have in them the potential to be heroes because most of the kids who are in these gangs are leaders, very charismatic and good organizers.

- Azim Khamisa

topic: Country, Children, Hero, Organizer

If the Bible didn't show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities , the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.

- Baal Shem Tov

topic: Hero, Might, Weakness

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Hero, Athlete, Legends, World Series, Inspiring Movie

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

- Baltasar Gracian

topic: Sports, Hero, Heroic, Memorial Day Heroes, Being A Hero

Live as a villain, die as a hero

- Banksy

topic: Hero, Villain

Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes and I see many of them in the audience here today.

- Barack Obama

topic: Stupid, Hero, Honor, Dumb Things, Fallen Hero

Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice.

- Barack Obama

topic: Memorial Day, Hero, Sacrifice, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Soldiers

I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.

- Barbara Broccoli

topic: Hero, Character, Thinking, Inner Demons, Inner Conflict

I am so tired of ruggedly handsome heroes. I don't know too many ruggedly handsome people who are necessarily nice people. In fact, the beautiful people have a big handicap because they rely too much on their appearance and don't bother to become interesting.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: Beautiful, Nice, Hero, Nice People, I Am So Tired

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

- Barry Eisler

topic: Hero, Thinking, Care, Anti Hero

I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.

- Barry Pepper

topic: Hero, Firefighter, My Hero

And while I'm on the subject, let me say something about Harry Potter. [Gravels her voice.] Warlocks are enemies of God!! [Back to normal screech.] And I don't care what kind of hero they are, they're an enemy of God. And had it been in the Old Testament, Harry Potter woulda been put to death! [Applause.] You don't make heroes out of warlocks. This is the generation that's gonna stand for purity, an' righteousnesss, an' holiness, an' you're gonna serve the lord all the days of your life.

- Becky Fischer

source: "Jesus Camp". www.imdb.com. 2006.

topic: Hero, Voice, Scary, Warlocks

Perhaps the final hour is come I have left no testament Only a pen, for my mother I am no hero in an age without heroes I just want to be a man.

- Bei Dao

source: Bei Dao (1983). “Notes from the City of the Sun: Poems”

topic: Mother, Hero, Men

One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

- Beilby Porteus

source: William Falconer, Thomas Day, Robert Blair, Robert Glynn, Beilby Porteus (1822). “The Poems of Falconer, Day, Blair, Glynn, and Porteus”, p.283

topic: Hero, Numbers, Murder

On playing Batman and his daughter: If I was doing the sequel to Frozen I would be a hero. My two older daughters could give a sh-t about Batman and they've now passed that affection onto my son. He's always like, 'Papa, can I watch Frozen?' And I'm like, 'No, dude, it's not on again!'.

- Ben Affleck

topic: Daughter, Mother, Hero

I do honor the very flea of his dog.

- Ben Jonson

topic: Dog, Hero, Honor

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Memories, Hero, Names, Memorial Day Heroes, Memorial Day Messages

This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.

- Bernard Beckett