Heroes - Heroism Quotes - Top 45

“You lived too long, we have dined full of heroes, they waste their deaths on us.”
–CD Andrews
“Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The crowded, happy masses – common clay, if you will – eating, raising, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; common people; people you can’t imagine dead. And then there are the others, the nobles, the heroes, the ones you can imagine lying down, pale and tragic, one minute triumphant with an honor guard, and the next parading between two gendarmes.
–Jean Anouilh
“True heroism is remarkably understated, very undramatic. It is not the drive to outdo everyone else at any cost, but the drive to serve others at any cost.”
–Arthur Ashe
“I think the nature of people is to be heroes, given the chance.”
–James A. Autry
“Everyone is necessarily the hero of their own life story.”
–John Barth
“What is a society without a heroic dimension?”
–Jean Baudrillard
“The hero, by living his own life, by being true to himself, radiates a light by which others can see their own path.”
–Laurence G. Boldt
“My heroes are the ones who survived by doing poorly, the ones who made mistakes but bounced back from them.”
— Bonus
“Unfortunate the land that needs heroes.”
–Bertolt Brecht
“Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip away quietly.”
–Tom Brokaw
“The hero, therefore, is the man or woman who has been able to overcome their personal and local historical limitations.”
–Joseph Campbell
“Cowards think about what they can lose, heroes think about what they can win.”
–JM Charlier
“Never in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few.”
–Winston Churchill
“True heroes are men who fall and fail and have flaws, but in the end they win because they have stayed true to their ideals, beliefs and commitments.”
–Kevin Costner
“Now there are new words that excuse everyone. Give me the old days of heroes and villains. The people you can shout at or whistle at. There was a truth to them that all today’s clever credulity cannot touch.”
–Bette Davis
“A hero is simply someone who rises above his own human foibles, for an hour, a day, a year, to do something moving.”
–Betty Deramus
“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.”
–Benjamin Disraeli
“Nourish your mind with great thoughts; believing in the heroic makes heroes.”
–Benjamin Disraeli
“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with their freedom.”
–Bob Dylan
“The mark of genuine heroism is its persistence. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have made up your mind to be great, hold on to yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself to the world. The heroic cannot to be common, nor the heroic common”.
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A hero is not braver than a common man, but he is braver five more minutes.”
–Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest actions of man are carried out in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields that have their heroes, dark heroes that are sometimes greater than illustrious heroes.”
–Victor Hugo
“By making their way and enjoying what they have gained, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes, ah, they have all the spare time they need.”
–Aldous Huxley
“There is no such man as a one person hero.”
–Daniel Inouye
“A hero is someone we can admire without apologizing.”
–Kitty Kelley
“Heroism… is endurance for one more moment.”
–George Kenan
“It is overcoming difficulties that makes heroes.”
–Louis Kossuth
“What is a hero without love for humanity”.
–Doris Lessing
“Without heroes, we are all ordinary people and we don’t know how far we can go.”
— Bernard Malamud (The Natural)
“You never have to wait long or look far to remember how fine the line is between being a hero or a goat.”
–Mickey Mantle
“In war, heroes always outnumber soldiers ten to one.”
–HL Mencken
“Calculation never made a hero.”
–John Henry Newman
“I’m sure the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs while the world spins like a maddening dreidel.”
–Florence Nightingale
“No heroine can create a hero through one’s love, but she can give birth to one.”
— Juan Pablo
“Heroes journey, face dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.”
–Carol Pearson (The Hero Within)
“When the first Superman movie came out, I was often asked, ‘What is a hero?’…My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences…Now my definition is completely different. I believe that a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure despite overwhelming obstacles.”
–Christopher Reeve
“The hero is strangely like those who die young.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Knowing that the odds are so high that only through the death of your life will the minions survive, that’s love. That’s heroism.”
– Sylvester Stallone
“The world has no place for cowards. We must all be prepared in some way to work hard, to suffer, to die. And yours is no less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out on your daily battlefields, and no crowd shouts about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.”
–Robert Louis Stevenson
“The most characteristic American hero in the early days, and the most beloved fellow of all time, was not the go-getter but the carver.”
–Mark Sullivan
“Who is a hero? The one who turns his enemy into a friend.”
— The Talmud
“If everyone was satisfied with themselves, there would be no heroes.”
–Mark Twain
“Villains are undone by the worst in them, heroes by the best.”
–Voltaire
“Opportunities for heroism are limited in this kind of world: the best people can do sometimes is not be as weak as they have been at other times.”
–AngusWilson
“It’s true that heroes are inspiring, but shouldn’t they also rescue if they want to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she just sent telegrams of sympathy to the bereaved?”
–Jeanette Winterson

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