When you’re truly awesome, you know that it’s actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes.

Star in the sky is useless to the world,Star on the stage makes the difference to the world.

In the men I love heroes, in the work I love heroism

No one is going to give you the education you need to overthrow them. Nobody is going to teach you your true history, teach you your true heroes, if they know that that knowledge will...

I play beside one of the unsung heroes in David Vaughan. It’s a privilege to play with him: he is breathtaking at times.

He smiled at me shyly and took a step closer. I froze, heart pounding, as he put one hand on my cheek and leaned toward me. I swallowed, gazing up at him with what I...

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed,...

I have no heroes except flowers and children.

Cowards are always much more dangerous than heroes.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not...

As an observer of human nature, let’s just face the facts: stupid stuff sells, and often the more stupid and silly it is, the better it sells.

Thats what happens to Snow in Texas, lady. It freaking MELTS!!” Leo Valdez- The Lost Hero

We like to stress the commonness of heroes. Essences seem undemocratic. We feel oppressed by the call to greatness. We regard an interest in glory or perfection as a sign of mental unhealthiness, and have...

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

Eccentricity of a creative mind may not be pleasing for the people around it, but it is important for the progress.

Heroism of your father doesn’t make you a hero, heroism of you doesn’t make your son a hero.

Heroes in fact die with one’s youth. They are pinned like butterflies to the setting board of early memories—the time when skies were always blue, the sun shone and the air was filled with the...

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions … and faith, the bravest of convictions.

Heralds don’t sing about men who lived in orthodoxy or played it safe, they sing about men who lived an uncertain future and took enough risks to make your head spin.

The sublime can only be found in the great subjects. Poetry, history and philosophy all have the same object, and a very great object—Man and Nature. Philosophy describes and depicts Nature. Poetry paints and embellishes...

Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won’t have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I’d rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes...

I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman… did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth...

Two of my biggest heroes were my father and John Wayne.

Far to our left I could see a commercial airliner on final approach to Soekarno-Hatta. Far to our right I could see the outline of tall city buildings. The imagery was hard to ignore. In...

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

Theories are there. Heroes are here

To assess the quality of thoughts of people, don’t listen to their words, but watch their actions.

Heroes are the most wanted and most needed people in the world.

Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

Since then I have searched for my heroes among small-t truths. I always find them among people learning the art of acceptance: not acceptance of defeat or acceptance of some inability to influence their own...

He loved books like that, and telly, and films. He loved stuff where there was a Chosen One, a special person, a hero, and he loved to imagine that one day things like that would...

You have heroes? No? what kind of feeling exist in you?

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

It was so much more comfortable to be able to divide people into heroes and villains and expect them to play their allotted part.

The great heroes of other ancient cultures were strong and clever and virtuous, but the great Jewish heroes copulated with slaves (Abraham), showed they were willing to allow others to have sex with their wives...

I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson.

We at Apple had forgotten who we were. One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.

“Crazy,” he muttered softly, “how much I need you.”Crazy, how something like that can feel like a kick in the chest, can hurt that much, can suck all the air right out of your body...

Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

There are those who hold first rankers and there are those who are heroes.

Heroes save worlds,” Clary said. “They don’t destroy them.

Even having saved the world doesn’t make me feel good about myself. Perhaps it’s something you get habituated to; each new world-saving moment has to be bigger and better than the last to give you...

would you really want to? By all accounts, it gets lonely being your own hero.

There are no heroes…in life, the monsters win.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren’t bad people. They all have their justifications.

You don’t look so much like a great hero,’ Jarrah said. ‘I’m pretty sure I’m not,’ Mack said wearily. ‘My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don’t think heroes have that problem.

So at the end of the day, here was what Mike was able to believe in: people.It was people and their kindness the made him feel blessed. It was people who were the heroes, and...