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

Men, Wise, Might

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Brave, Longer, Five

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

Freedom, Someone

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.
Tecumseh

Time, Home, Death

My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don't really know what's happening down there. Who is the real hero?
Mitch Hedberg

Real, Down, Hold

Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Last, Bore, Becomes

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.
Norman Schwarzkopf

Men, Battle, Order

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
Joseph Campbell

Life, Someone, Her

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Write, Show, Tragedy

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

Freedom, Someone, Degree

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

Strength, Individual, Obstacles

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers

Earth, Profession

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
Will Rogers

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.
Bob Riley

Hard, Times, Within

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Good, Truth, Bad

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar

Help, Someone, Give

Millions of people thought Archie was a happy hero.
Carroll O'Connor

Happy, Thought, Millions

Dr. Martin Luther King is not a black hero. He is an American hero.
Morgan Freeman

Black, American, King

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.
Dolores Ibarruri

Wife, Coward, Widow

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.
Frank Miller

Time, Best, Whole

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
Walt Whitman

May, Young, Become

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Work, Nature, Alone

We are the hero of our own story.
Mary McCarthy

I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
Christopher Reeve

Strength, Individual, Obstacles

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.
Marilyn Manson

Person, Show, Story

Teddy Roosevelt is still a hero among environmentalists for his conservationist policies.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Among, Teddy, Policies

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller

Action, Difference, Involved

As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
Hugh Laurie

Good, Happy, Hate

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Cannot, Unless, Heroic

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