Heroes Quotes

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.

The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.