647 Quotes About Heroes

Heroes save worlds," Clary said. "They don't destroy them.

Everybody in this academy, Shadowhunters and mundanes, people with the Sight and without it, every one of them is looking to be a hero. We are all hoping for it, and trying for it, and soon we will all be bleeding for it.

I should've told him that when I'd had a knife pulled on me for the first time, I ran faster than Carl Lewis. That the only people who survive in this world are cowards. And that true heroes are destined to die young. That the world needed him, so if anyone pulled a knife on him , he had to run faster than a speeding bullet.

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

He (and anyone else who survived) learned to be as unscrupulous as the heroes in the pulp adventure magazines he'd read as a boy--sometimes, as unscrupulous as the villains.

I don't think there are any true heroes. Just people who ignore their survival instincts long enough to do something incredibly foolhardy.

Heroes rarely get to rest when they desire to.

Heroes take chances, it's not easy to be your own hero if you stay in your comfort zone. Reaching for your dream may involve chances, but the only way to reach them is to try.

The hero isn’t the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame—deserved or not—and apologize to save a relationship.