402 Quotes About Heroism

Your path to this point, the trials you have suffered... taking each of those things that knocked you down and made you grind your teeth and then standing up again is what makes a true hero.

Lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero

I have a vision that the modern sense of being a hero is like shining a bright light on things that need to be seen.

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Nothing is certain. Many ways lead to destruction. You will be tested beyond your capacity to endure. Should you survive the trials ahead, you will be a husband without a wife, a father without a son, a hero without a quest, and a king without a country. But take heart. Some must lose the way to find it. Some must be empty before they are full, weak before they are strong, and blind before they can see.

You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal. Monsters never die. They are reborn from the chaos and barbarism that is always bubbling underneath civilization, the very stuff that makes Kronos stronger. They must be defeated again and again, kept at bay. Heroes embody that struggle. You fight the battles humanity must win, every generation, in order to stay human.

Your hero is unable to hold his wine, I see,' observed Serpentine, dispassionately.'He is not my hero,' said Door.'I'm afraid he is. You learn to recognize the type. Something in the eyes, perhaps.

The most enduring heroes are people who don't try to be.

The problem of the hero is to pierce himself (and therewith his world) precisely through that point; to shatter and annihilate that key knot of his limited existence.