647 Quotes About Heroes

My hero is Methuselah. He lived a thousand years.

Heroes inevitably experience at least one very big failure that tests whether they have the resilience to come back and fight smarter and with more determination.

But cannot we live as though we always loved? It was this that the saints and heroes did; this and nothing more.

Your grandfather was a hero in a war, girls. He wasn't a bad man or a weak man. Maybe he was too old to have a second family, a second wife and your mother and me, so many years after he lost his first. Maybe he was too old to fight anymore, and that's why he let me be taken away. I've thought about this for years and years. All I know is there are no heroes in this world. Not really. Just men and women who become old and tired and lose the strength to fight for what they love any longer.

Anyone can be a hero, even those who cannot. They just have to believe.

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Pain is what makes us human. Being able to keep fighting despite the pain is what makes us heroes.

Hero love?” I was puzzled. “You know. The kind of love you have for someone you want to be like: Marines, astronauts, cowboys, teachers, big brothers, that sort of thing. You love them because they represent the you that you want to be.

Show me a hero and I'll show you a man enslaved by his competence.