Hero Quotes

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. (Bob Dylan)
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by. View quote
Will Rogers
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
Every hero becomes a bore at last. 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
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 are the hero of our own story. View quote
Mary McCarthy
One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a human. View quote
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. (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. View quote
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. (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
Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories. View quote
George R. R. Martin