Heroes Quotes

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Wilson Mizner

Grace is given to heal the spiritually sick, not to decorate spiritual heroes

Martin Luther

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

John Gay

We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes

Robert Maynard Hutchins

There are obstinate and unknown braves who defend themselves inch by inch in the shadows against the fatal invasion of want and turpitude. There are noble and mysterious triumphs which no eye sees. No renown rewards, and no flourish of trumpets salutes. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment, and poverty and battlefields which have their heroes.

Victor Hugo

Fond man! though all the heroes of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine In proud display; yet take this truth from me-- Virtue alone is true nobility!

Juvenal

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Will Rogers

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

Alfred Whitehead

An efficiency-regime cannot be run without a few heroes stuck about it to carry off the dullness - much as plums have to be put into a bad pudding to make it palatable.

E. M. Forster

Our globe discovers its bidden virtues, not only in heroes and arch-angels, but in gossips and nurses.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Maya Angelou

As a dreamer of dreams and a travelin' man, I have chalked up many a mile. Read dozens of books about heroes and crooks, And I've learned much from both of their styles.

James William "Jimmy" Buffett

Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race.

Stanley Kunitz