Courage Hero Quotes

#1. Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.

Ricky Martin

#2. If that animal claims not to be frightened, then that animal is a liar. The real hero is the animal who fights even though scared. That is courage. There can be no courage without fear.

Kathryn Lasky

#3. Unbounded courage and compassion join'd, Tempering each other in the victor's mind, Alternately proclaim him good and great, And make the hero and the man complete.

Joseph Addison

#4. Besides, two kinds of people have the courage to make someone else's decisions: the hero, who comes to your rescue when you can't even cry out for help, and the tyrant. The only difference between them is the hero listens. As soon as you can talk, he'll put you down if you say so.

Skyler White

#5. Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#6. A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live.

Criss Jami

#7. A hero is not a hero because of their courage, but because of the courage they give to others.

Paul Clayton Gibbs

#8. Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard.

Dean Koontz

#9. Become major, Paul. Live like a hero. That's what the classics teach us. Be a main character. Otherwise what is life for?

J.M. Coetzee

#10. Ah,the pure shine of a few moments of heroism, high courage, and derring-do! In its light we genuflect before the Hero, we bask inthe warmth of his Deeds, we tout him, shout him praises, deify him, and, in short, make of him what no mortal could ever be.

Oakley Hall

#11. It takes a hell of a lot of courage to walk into your own story, but to be the hero of your own life you have to rescue yourself.

Shannon L. Alder

#12. If we could be heroes, if just for one day.

David Bowie

#13. A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for ten minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.

Melanie Rawn

#15. If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.

Waylon Jennings

#16. Asked to explain how he became a war hero he (Kennedy) responded, It was involuntary. They think my boat.

Sally Bedell Smith

#17. I wanted something that would address the strengths and weaknesses of humanity. I wanted a story that could move readers. My Honor Flight is that story.

Dan McCurrigan

#18. Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Viola Davis

#19. Nobody who says, 'I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#20. All the courage and competitiveness of Jackie Robinson affects me to this day. If I patterned my life after anyone it was him, not because he was the first black baseball player in the majors but because he was a hero.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#21. A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

Deborah Wiles

#22. Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one's cues.

Lev Grossman

#23. A hero lives forever for the ones who carry on.

Heather Dale

#24. He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Lyman Abbott

#25. Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

Ricky Martin

#26. The most powerful and courageous heroes I know are those who bite their tongues when justification, validation, temptation, or vengeance would have them strike with truthful, hurtful words.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#27. There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

David Gemmell

#28. But I was not good enough. You should understand this about me - I am not a hero; not one to tap unknown reserves of courage; not one to rise to circumstance. I am the understudy who chokes on his lines when he is forced onto the stage. I am never, ever good enough.

Dexter Palmer

#29. No phallic hero, no matter what he does to himself or to another to prove his courage, ever matches the solitary, existential courage of the woman who gives birth.

Andrea Dworkin

#30. Be the hero of your children's story. Never let them believe for a minute that honor, courage and doing what is right is only reserved for other fathers and mothers.

Shannon L. Alder

#31. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Lev Grossman

#32. When others lives were at stake, Virchow's courage had no limit. That is the definition of a hero.

Leslie Dunn

#33. A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time.

Sharon Robinson

#34. John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy.

Robert Burns

#35. Success rests with having the courage and endurance and, above all, the will to become the person you are, however peculiar that may be. Then you will be able to say, I found my hero and he is me.

George A. Sheehan

#36. Darwin was not afraid to look deeply into the void. His bold view can be seen as either noble and pessimistic or noble and admirable. For people of science, he is a hero. Denying man a privileged place in creation, .. he reaffirms with his own intellectual courage the dignity of man.

Primo Levi

#37. But Clary's a hero at heart- and that means she'll find a way to be the hero she needs to be, to look beyond the skills she doesn't have and draw on the skills she does have to ultimately save the day.

Sarah Cross

#38. Such a lot is won when even a single man gets to his feet and says No

Bertolt Brecht

#39. If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Brad Herzog

#40. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.

Molly Ivins

#41. A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.

Emily Rodda

#42. Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn't register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you're too daft to know you're mortal?

David Benioff

#43. One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.

Amit Kalantri

#44. Courage can come fro many places, and be made of many things, and yesterday's coward can become tomorrow's hero in an instant if the time is right.

Joe Abercrombie

#45. When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Richard P. Feynman

#46. The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

George MacDonald

#47. But a hero should be somebody who can lift up other people with his courage and dedication.

Michael Phelps

#48. Where courage and judgement are equally required a clever coward is better than a stupid hero.

Michael Collins

#49. Every hero must have the courage to be alone, to take the journey for himself.

Joseph Campbell

#50. If "Manners maketh man," as someone said
Then he's the hero of the day
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself, no matter what they say."
(Englishman in New York)

Sting

#51. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#52. If everyone were a hero, what would courage be worth?

Heda Margolius Kovaly