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.

I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.

Sometimes the good guy rips out innocent people’s throats. That’s just something the world need to live with if it wants the good guy to keep saving the day.

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look. They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part...

Even though we don’t admit it, every single one of us aspires to be like somebody, whether they live in the world today, within the bard’s lyrics, or on the pages in the Library

Bet herojų ilgesys išlieka

There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

And I believe we need heroes, I believe we need certain people who we can measure our own shortcomings by.

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you...

Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.

When I was in Auschwitz, I kept asking, why am I here, what did I do wrong? What did my grandfather do wrong? And a young American man, he put me in the right knowledge....

The position of a hero is not for the comparision, it is a reference point

There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism.

Because it is on the anvil of pain that the gods forge heroes.

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Heroes didn’t win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story — the dead didn’t say a word. All of it was bullshit.

I come in peace unto you; heroes do not need weapons.

Heroes can be sweet.

A dead man who never caused others to die seldom rates a statue.

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead...

How could I explain why I’d acted that way? How could I explain how scary it was, to find out that I needed her so much? Was I supposed to tell her how she’d changed...

No, what he didn’t like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

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...