Heroes And Heroines Quotes

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  A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspiring, Peace, Diversity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

  Simone Weil

  Women, Hero, Order

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• Aren't most romance heros, or heros in fiction of any kind, generally superior to real men? Same goes for heroines and real women.

  Nora Roberts

  Real, Hero, Men

  "Nora Roberts on her MacGregor Series". All About Romance Interview, allaboutromance.com.

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• Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.

  Carol Lynn Pearson

  Sports, Veterans Day, Travel

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• The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered.

  Nelson Mandela

  Struggle, Hero, Leader

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.184, Pan Macmillan

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• Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

  Ray Bradbury

  Sports, Morning, Hero

  "Medicine For Melancholy" by Steve Rose, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2008.

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• I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so Id love to find - and real too. Not necessarily the superhero perfect archetype of what an action hero is represented as a lot of times. I would love to find that kind of action heroine role to play.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Real, Hero, Intelligent

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• But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.

  Jane Austen

  Love, Sister, Wedding

  Jane Austen (2009). “Northanger Abbey”, p.8, Wild Jot Press

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• There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who first ate a lobster. This staggers the imagination. I salute him every time I take my nutcracker in hand and move the melted-butter pipkin closer.

  Gladys Taber

  Moving, Hero, Men

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• We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

  Maeve Binchy

  Disappointment, Betrayal, Hero

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• There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

  Nina Simone

  Hero, Knowing, People

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• There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Hero, Suffering, Limits

  Katherine Mansfield, Margaret Scott (1997). “The Katherine Mansfield notebooks”

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• What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Hero, Brave

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.15, Macmillan

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• The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice "inner disarmament," in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the "best armor," since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself.

  Dalai Lama

  Hero, Heart, Practice

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.

  Yiyun Li

  Hero, Culture, Calling

  Source: therumpus.net

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• All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it's a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Love, Lying, Hero

  Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer (2011). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.274, Dial Press

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• Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another) and defending what is good. Heroes do not want power over others.

  Edward Abbey

  Hero, People, Evil

  "Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast".

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• Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

  Jane Yolen

  Fall, Hero, Doors

  Jane Yolen (2011). “Snow in Summer”, p.55, Penguin

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• We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

  David Richo

  Hero, Character, Loss

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• I've always thought that, as a romance writer, I had the best job in the world. I sit around all day making up emotion-drenched, conflict-laden stories that push my heroes and heroines to the edge of sanity. Then I give them a happy ending.

  Ruth Glick

  Jobs, Hero, Best Job

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• The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

  Edward de Bono

  Art, Hero, People

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• Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.

  Jackie French

  Book, Hero, Home

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• In fiction, as in real life, love might inspire acts that are at best foolish and at worst life-threatening, but in the best romances, love is the final, secret ingredient that turns mere mortals into heroes and heroines.

  Sarah MacLean

  Real, Hero, Love Life

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• 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

  Lying, Hero, Years

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

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