Hero Quotes

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. (Plato)
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer. View quote
Novalis
A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. View quote
Bob Dylan
It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes. View quote
Jules Renard
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. View quote
Will Rogers
Every hero becomes a bore at last. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
We are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
No hero is mortal till he dies. View quote
W. H. Auden
Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. View quote
Samuel Johnson
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes! View quote
Maya Angelou
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary. View quote
Gerard Way
We all live in suspense, from day to day, from hour to hour in other words, we are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle. View quote
Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. View quote
John Barth
No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist. View quote
Eric Berne
I am the hero of Africa. View quote
Idi Amin
Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero. (Morgan Freeman)
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue. View quote
Salvatore Quasimodo
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. View quote
Umberto Eco
Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. View quote
W. Somerset Maugham
I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. View quote
Christopher Reeve
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