Top 94 Heroes Heroism Quotes
#1. A hero is not only a brave individual, but a brave individual that dares to be different.
Keely Barton
#2. Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.
Liane Merciel
#4. For a man who makes his salvation perfect through suffering, is more of a saint and a loving hero of nature.
Auliq Ice
#5. Everything is going to be fine now because heroes are here.
Amit Kalantri
#6. Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.
James A. Garfield
#7. Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.
Yiyun Li
#8. Heroes are higher than their vulnerability that is why they are heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#9. Heroism of your father doesn't make you a hero, heroism of you doesn't make your son a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#10. Someone needs to fight,someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#11. I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.
Mercedes Lackey
#12. I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#13. You have worked too long in the life, now its time for heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#14. If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?
Brad Herzog
#15. Heroes are more than just stories, they're people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there's always something in them that'll turn sour... you'll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.
Joel Cornah
#16. When you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong and you'll finally see the truth- that hero lies in you.
Mariah Carey
#17. To know how glorious you are, it is only after your death.
Auliq Ice
#18. Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.
Brad Herzog
#19. One courageous act can make you a hero but frequent courageous acts will keep you a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#20. A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#22. So many heroes are driven by destiny. Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, they were all chosen and born to heroism. Even with Batman, it doesn't feel like Bruce could do anything else. His whole life was leading him to become the Dark Knight.
Andrew Kreisberg
#23. The world needs heroes. Be a hero and build your part of the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#24. But surely even heroes weary lugging around the burdens of their heroism.
J.H. Trumble
#25. Heroes, I've learned, don't always wear white.
Sometimes they come from the darkness, shadows among shadows.
Nalini Singh
#26. Sacrifices will make you a martyr, victories will make you a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#27. What people adore about superhero movies is the signal quality of the Christopher Nolan films - their complete lack of irony when it comes to the portrayal of heroism and the need for heroes to confront evil.
John Podhoretz
#28. I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.
Brad Herzog
#29. I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.
Florence Nightingale
#30. Heroes, well, they don't live so long. But they're muy suave, and we all admire them.
Nancy Farmer
#31. You might hate a successful person, but you can not hate a true hero.
Amit Kalantri
#32. For happiness don't pursue satisfaction, but pursue heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#33. Finishing work makes you a man, finishing difficult work makes you a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#35. I don't hate men, I just wish they'd try harder. Theyall want to be heroes and all we want is for them to stay at home and help with the housework and the kids. That's not the kind of heroism they enjoy.
Jeanette Winterson
#36. Sometimes even the most successful people feel empty and incomplete; because they are not heroes yet.
Amit Kalantri
#38. There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.
Amit Kalantri
#39. Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.
Amit Kalantri
#40. Our mother used to say that a hero doesn't always have to slay a dragon to save the day." She swept a lock of hair behind her ear in an honest gesture, then pursed her lips and looked back at him, her gaze endearing. "Sometimes he just walks through the fire alongside you, and that's enough.
Kristy Cambron
#41. A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom," she said. "It's often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.
Shannon A. Thompson
#42. Danny could see it in their faces when they shook Steve's hand - they'd have preferred him dead. Death allowed for the illusion of heroism. The maimed turned that illusion into an uncomfortable odor.
Dennis Lehane
#43. Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
Gerard Way
#44. No doubt you can get more in your market for a quart of milk than for a quart of blood, but that is not the market that heroes carry their blood to.
Henry David Thoreau
#45. First you be a hero and then raise your child to be a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#46. September 11th has produced only miniature heroes because our culture has freed itself from many of the old, dangerous, elitist fantasies of heroism ... But in so doing, we have not only tamed and diminished heroes. We have risked taming and diminishing ourselves.
Rory Stewart
#47. People have seen too many common people like them, and they are bored by it. They need heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#48. There are so many unsung heroines and heroes at this broken moment in our collective story, so many courageous persons who, unbeknownst to themselves, are holding together the world by their resolute love or contagious joy. Although I do not know your names, I can feel you out there.
David Abram
#49. As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored.
Amit Kalantri
#50. Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
Amit Kalantri
#51. Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.
Emil Cioran
#52. You don't die when your body stops functioning. You die when your name is uttered for the last time in the world.
Abhijit Naskar
#53. In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism
Amit Kalantri
#54. His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
William Manchester
#55. There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler's List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace.
Erik Larson
#56. The men history declares heroes are merely heroes because they failed to survive their benevolent acts.
Felix O. Hartmann
#58. There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.
Amit Kalantri
#59. Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.
Amit Kalantri
#60. We praise heroes as though they are rare, and yet we are always ready to blame another man for lack of heroism.
Graham Greene
#62. Love could be soft and understanding; that, soft or hard, love was an act of heroism. And I could no longer predict where I would find my heroes.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#63. True heroes are never heroes for the recognition. They do what they are supposed to do, play the hand they've been dealt. And true heroes don't seek out heroism. It's thrust upon them.
Darynda Jones
#64. In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: "In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'
No,'" I answered, 'but I served in a company of heroes.
Stephen E. Ambrose
#66. Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
Fred Rogers
#67. Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other
or kill ourselves.
Orhan Pamuk
#69. Think of the Christmas present
of gashes you opened when, in an attempt
to be Superman, you slid in stocking feet
on a slippery wood floor and crashed
half way through a window. Hopes
of heroism dashed on the heels
of no clear sighting of Santa.
Kristen Henderson
#70. Future will always remember the heroes, its because of them there exist a future.
Amit Kalantri
#71. If you are the hero of your family, there is very good chance that one day you will be the hero of the world.
Amit Kalantri
#72. Heroes betray us. By having them, in real life, we betray ourselves.
Michael Moorcock
#73. True heroism is not reserved solely for men and women in uniform. Heroes come from all walks of lifestyles.
James Morris Robinson
#74. Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.
Lance Conrad
#75. Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.
James Rozoff
#76. Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.
N.D. Wilson
#78. What is heroic is not making life any harder that it has to be.
Marty Rubin
#79. In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.
John Rhys-Davies
#80. You are born to build the society, not to follow it.
Abhijit Naskar
#81. How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Maya Angelou
#82. They blew out a breath and did the thing all heroes must do - they took that terrifying first step.
Chloe Neill
#83. Today is my last day as a human, tomorrow I am going to be a hero.
Amit Kalantri
#84. Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.
Stefan Molyneux
#85. Heroes don't have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#86. My friends wanted their names in the list of employees of some company, well I wanted my name in the list of the heroes of the world.
Amit Kalantri
#87. Have patience and keep working. Everything will come alright in time.
Abhijit Naskar
#88. There are no more heroes in America. Because of the Internet, heroism has become momentary and within seconds someone who we should be thinking about will be replaced in people's minds with news that Beyonce lip-synched at the inauguration.
Tommy Mottola
#89. Never say war insane at the moment for you to embrace those gentle heroes you left behind.
Auliq Ice
#90. Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one day blows out the candle; a women terrified of the pain of childbirth who says, 'It is time to become a mother'. Heroism does not always live on the battlefield.
David Gemmell
#91. The most unlucky generation is the one which couldn't produce a hero to look upto.
Amit Kalantri
#92. Throw away the newspapers. Discard all the useless debates and gossiping. Start working in silence. Start working on your passion. And make the news yourself.
Abhijit Naskar
#93. No war is ever glorious. Heroes are usually dead. Besides, they rarely turn into heroes because they are super-humans, but because of circumstances.
Aleksandr Voinov
#94. I was just trying to be a very good human, instead I became a hero.
Amit Kalantri
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