647 Quotes About Heroes

What is heroic is not making life any harder than it has to be.

He had acquired a reputation for possessing a noble character, and even for being something of a hero - or, at least, in the assessment of one contemporary commentator, one of those parties who are able to fulfil the public need in the event of genuine heroes being absent or, for any reason, unpalatable.

When all is said and done I think the story tells us that hope is the heroes domain, not the fools. Because we dare to hope, even when doing so might undo us. We leave the worlds we create behind us, swirling in our wakes, eternal and effervescent with the beauty of our aspirations.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

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.

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.