Top 98 Real Hero Quotes
#1. [Rosa Louise] Parks used to say, "Everybody looks at me because I sat down once in Montgomery, but the real hero is a woman named Septima Clark."She created the Citizenship Schools [where civil-rights activists taught basic literacy and political education classes].
Marian Wright Edelman
#2. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
George S. Patton
#3. I had my footballing heroes such as Bryan Robson and Diego Maradona but my dad was a rugby league star, and he was my real hero. But the relationship with my mum was rocky and we saw things that would affect any youngster.
Ryan Giggs
#4. Anyone can slay a dragon ... but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.
Brian Andreas
#5. We are taught that the hero's journey is the journey from weakness to strength. But I am here today to tell you that those stories are wrong. The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness.
John Green
#7. A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.
Tom Collins
#8. The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco
#9. I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read.
Rodman Philbrick
#10. She swallows and looks down at her hands clenched in her lap. "I don't like this story." "Should I jump to the ending? Spoiler alert: the hero saves her." Tabby looks over at me, her eyes shining like gems in the dark. "A real hero would teach the princess how to save herself.
J.T. Geissinger
#11. The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads. And yet I do not think
Geraldine Brooks
#12. And Anakin is on his way despite the dread boiling through his blood. That's what makes him a real hero. Not the way the HoloNet labels him; not without fear, but stronger than fear.
He looks the dragon in the eye and doesn't even slow down.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#13. No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#14. Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.
Jessica Chastain
#15. The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code,
Douglas McIlroy
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. Workaholics aren't heroes. They don't save the day, they just use it up. The real hero is home because she figured out a faster way
Jason Fried
#19. Some people want to believe they can be an instant hero in eveyday life. A real hero is someone that stands by your side and appreciates you everyday!
Jose N. Harris
#20. They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.
Neal Shusterman
#21. 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
#22. He was the real hero in my world and I treasured him. And he loved me. Loved spending time with me.
Cary Elwes
#23. As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.
Horatio Bottomley
#24. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.
Werner Erhard
#25. For God's sake stop making people in your image. Harry was real. He wasn't just your hero and my lover. He was Harry. He was in a racket. He did bad things. What about it? He was the man we knew.
Graham Greene
#26. As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.
Tom Brady
#27. Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies - loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt - every time they come around.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#28. No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.
T. J. Oshie
#29. The real problem with being around James was that he was always the hero. And what did that make you? Either the sidekick or the villain.
Lev Grossman
#30. The more romance novelists that are out there, making romanticized ideas of vampirism for the kids, the more people want to see a real action movie, putting the bad guys where they belong, as the bad guys, and looking for a hero to come along and defend our very souls.
Corey Feldman
#31. Each one's no longer conscious
Of the high wall, or the rest:
Since the one enduring fortress,
Is the soldier's iron breast.
If you'd live unconquered,
Quickly arm, and fight the real foe:
Every wife an Amazon bred,
And every child a hero.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. Looking at someone else's relationship for the answers was like reading about a romance novel hero and expecting to find a carbon copy in real life
Maya Banks
#33. I don't like to go to conventions, and I don't like to relate to people on a level of hero worship, because there's no real communication going on there.
Alan Moore
#34. I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.
Jet Li
#35. Listen to your parents, do your homework and listen to your teachers. Those are the real heroes.
Carl Crawford
#36. People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
Dean Koontz
#37. It wasn't often that you got to meet your real life hero, but I had been blessed to have him for a father.
Katie Ashley
#38. There is never any real danger in allowing a pedestal for a hero. He never has time to sit on it. One sees him always over and over again kicking his pedestal out from under him, and using it to batter a world with.
Gerald Stanley Lee
#39. Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.
Germaine Greer
#40. The one thing that TV is bad at doing is preaching. There are two extremes, you either turn the people into a punchline or turn them into hero, and both of those things suck, because most people are neither in real life.
Mike Rowe
#41. When I first found out that Superman wasn't real, I was about maybe eight. And I was talking to my mother about it. And she was like, 'No, no, no. There's no Superman.' And I started crying. I really thought he was coming to rescue us. The chaos, the violence, the danger. No hero was coming.
Geoffrey Canada
#42. Those who give up cigarette smoking aren't the heroes. The real heroes are the rest of us - who have to listen to them.
Hal Boyle
#43. The real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.
Naomi Shihab Nye
#44. The larger-than-life thing is definitely what I'm after. I've always drawn dark stories. Occasionally, I'll try a perfect hero, but it's a real stretch for me. I like 'em warts and all, and obsessive and weird.
Frank Miller
#45. The hero was the sort of character you could feel yourself falling in love with, no matter how much you tried to convince yourself that he wasn't real
Heather James
#46. When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?
Zach Braff
#47. The trouble with real life is that you don't know whether you're the hero or just some nice chap who gets bumped off in chapter five to show what a rotter the villain is without anyone minding too much.
Sarah Caudwell
#48. My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
Hank Azaria
#49. In a career playing heroes, I learned a little about the real thing. A hero stands up-for himself, for herself, but most importantly for others.
Kevin Sorbo
#50. King Arthur is treated like George Washington often is - as a hero who is so noble and so far above the common man that he seems more like a stuffed owl than a real person.
Joan Wolf
#51. That was one of the things that interested me about the character. He doesn't want to be a hero, and has no real desire to save the earth or discover aliens. He's sniffing around looking to see what will fall in his lap.
Orlando Jones
#52. Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes.
George Washington
#53. A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.
Eric Wilson
#54. I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
Nathan Gamble
#55. Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
Jesse Owens
#56. Angels and demons are not mythical, they're real and are here, inside all of us, trying to dominate but only with our support. It's us who decides who we are. Fighting for good cause makes us hero and letting wrong things happen, makes us villain
Nikhil Kushwaha
#57. Real Dominance isn't always measured in muscle. Nor is it always measured in Intelligence. But rather it is measured... In heart.
Lucian Bane
#58. 'Watchmen' is a politically charged story, and it explores exactly what a hero is, how the world would treat them and how they would react. It was the first time I read a superhero story that explored that situation. These are very real people with very real problems.
Gerard Way
#59. Maybe the desire that burns behind this question is the desire to be real. And which is more real - a clod of dirt unnoticed at your feet, or a hero in a legend?
And maybe behind the desire to be real is simply wanting to be known.
To be held.
Benjamin Rosenbaum
#60. The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.
Mao Zedong
#61. In a traditional TV show or movie, your hero is always where the action is. But in real life, at the end of the movie 'Fargo,' when Bill Macy is arrested, Marge is nowhere to be found because it's a different jurisdiction, and she wouldn't be there. I took that to heart.
Noah Hawley
#62. Readers will stand up and cheer for Karen Fox's Prince of Charming! Finally, a heroine who's a real woman. Finally, a hero who knows what a rare find she is! Finally, a book for us all to adore! Thank you Karen Fox for creating the most lovable hero romance has seen in a long, long time!
Maggie Shayne
#63. The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.
Akira Kurosawa
#64. I have nothing nice to say about Chris Pratt, of course. He's probably the greatest hero of our time in real life, honestly.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#65. So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.
Blake Lively
#66. He's not the hero and he's not the enemy and he's not a god. He's just a boy. And I'm just a girl, a girl who needs to pick up her own pieces and put them back together herself.
Amber Smith
#67. Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.
Gino Bartali
#68. For in a real tragedy, it is not the hero who perishes; it is the chorus.
Joseph Brodsky
#69. A hero without faults is like an omelet without little bits of eggshell in it.
Colin Cotterill
#70. Only a dead nation remembers its heroes when they die. Real nations respect them when they are alive.
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
#71. There was a real conflation of hero and victim in the wake of 9/11, in our perverse desire to create a triumphant myth out of pure tragedy.
Jess Walter
#72. Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.
Roger Delano Hinkins
#73. I find actors who play nasty guys in movies are the nicest guys in real life, and the opposite then goes for heroes.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#74. I went in and said, "If I see one more gratuitous shot of a woman's body, I'm quitting ... " I think the show should be emotional story lines, morals, real- life heroes. And that's what we're doing
David Hasselhoff
#75. He's the real deal. Eric Taylor was one of my heroes and teachers when I started playing around Houston in the early 1970s.
Steve Earle
#76. If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick - dead!
Stephen E. Ambrose
#77. My dad is like a cactus - introverted and tough. I'm a people person, like my mom, but I got my competitiveness from my dad. He came to this country from Belarus with nothing and built a real business. He's my hero for giving me that need to run a business and for having enormous confidence in me.
Gary Vaynerchuk
#78. Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.
Andy Biersack
#79. But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear.
Pablo Neruda
#80. [Prince Stefan's] family was of Eastern European descent, with some real royalty thrown in via a connection to Vlad the Impaler - who hung from a branch that Ian wouldn't kept secret had the family tree been growing in his yard.
Suzanne Brockmann
#81. Real change in society must start from individual initiative.
Dalai Lama
#82. You're my hero. The real kind. More so than your dad or any of the others working with him are.
Tera Lynn Childs
#83. I play Rock Band, which is Guitar Hero times ten. You can play with four people, so when you have parties, you have a real band. Nobody ever wants to sing, so I'm always the one throwing down on the mic.
Elizabeth Banks
#84. The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.
Dalai Lama
#85. I thought he was the man I'd been waiting for. A hero right out of Austen. The one who would finally make everything okay. Only he wasn't real. Like Austen's characters, he was fiction. Mr. Darcy broke my heart.
Beth Pattillo
#86. You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.
DJ Shadow
#87. I've written a detective series myself, set in an imaginary, and slightly futuristic, Chinese city. The novels have an extremely tenuous relationship with the real world, since the hero is the city's Hell and ends up with a sidekick who is a demon.
Liz Williams
#88. She needed a break from me. Well, real ones anyway. Fictional men were fine: they knew their place. You could just pick up a book, flick through to the right page, take your fill of your favorite hero and then return them to the shelf. Job done.
Victoria Connelly
#89. I at least wanted to appear strong and elegant in your eyes just like a manga heroine who's too perfect to be real - Nana
The only person who will ever be my hero is you, Nana - Hachi
Ai Yazawa
#90. Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui - these are the true hero's enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real.
David Foster Wallace
#91. Probably when people hear our national anthem they think of me. A real American hero.
Jarod Kintz
#92. Wink wasn't a villain.
She wasn't a hero.
People aren't just one thing. They never, ever are.
Wink was flesh and blood.
She was bad.
And she was good.
She was real.
April Genevieve Tucholke
#93. Here's to real heroes, not the ones who carry us off into the sunset but the ones who help us choose our princes. - commentary on Castles on the Sand
E.M. Tippetts
#94. Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility - people who will act to make possibility real.
Werner Erhard
#95. I want to play Martin Luther King. I want to tell the real story, his demons, his struggles as a man, not just as a hero but fallible, I want to show that side.
Columbus Short
#96. Do I want to be a hero to my son? No. I would like to be a very real human being. That's hard enough.
Robert Downey Jr.
#97. Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand
#98. Growing up, I looked up to real women. I didn't go in for hero worship and I still don't. Everybody has feet of clay.
Lucy Lawless
