Heroes Quotes

When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity.

Michael Mann's always been one of my heroes.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

As a boy I used to go to the Chamber of Horrors at the annual fair, to look at the wax figures of Emperors and Kings, of heroes and murderers of the day. The dead now had that same unreality, which shocks without arousing pity.

At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

I am convinced that in the upcoming chapter of the struggle, I can be more useful to the inevitable change that will soon come to Cuba, to Cuba's freedom, as a private citizen dedicated to helping the heroes within Cuba.

You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.

Ancient societies had anthropomorphic gods: a huge pantheon expanding into centuries of dynastic drama; fathers and sons, martyred heroes, star-crossed lovers, the deaths of kings - stories that taught us of the danger of hubris and the primacy of humility.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

Life is not simple, and people can't be boxed into being either heroes or villains.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.

In every man the memory of the struggles and the heroes of the past is alive. But these memories are not incompatible with the desire for peace in the future.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

No, people back home don't realize why there is this kind of need for heroes in America at the moment. People in Britain don't really understand what's going on here. They don't understand why Camp X-ray exists.

I'm quite influenced in this by one of my heroes, Montaigne, who thought a man's real task was to render as honest an account of himself as he could.

Dean Martin is one of my heroes.

Heroes can be sweet.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.

Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.

If you have to put someone on a pedestal, put teachers. They are society's heroes.

As we continue to fight the War on Terror, it is imperative that we protect America's fallen heroes by ensuring that they are treated with respect, while being laid to rest.