Hero Sayings & Quotes
These hero sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself. - Joseph Campbell
If one does not have wild dreams of achievement, there is no spur even to get the dishes washed. One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. - May Sarton
A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. - Plato
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, 'Twill make your courage rise, Twill make a man forget his wo; 'Twill heighten all his joy. - Robert Burns
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. - Bob Dylan
Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. - Baltasar Gracian Y Morales
He's of stature somewhat low, Your hero always should be tall, you know. - Charles Churchill
Who sees with equal eye, as God of all, A hero perish, or a sparrow fall, Atoms or systems into ruin hurl'd, And now a bubble burst, and now a world. - Alexander Pope
Destiny's powerful hand has made the bed of my future and it's up to me to lie in it. I am destined to be a superhero to right wrongs and pound two-fisted justice into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere. You don't fight destiny, no sir! And you don't eat crackers in the bed of your future or you get all, scratchy. Hey, I'm narrating here! - Ben Edlund
Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day. - Ray Bradbury
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow. - Washington Irving
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every hero becomes a bore at last. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
No hero is mortal till he dies. - Wystan Hugh Auden
A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have sometimes made a hero of the same man who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning would have proved a coward. - Philip Dormer Stanhope
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler. - Marlene Dietrich
It makes a great difference whether Davus or a hero speaks. [La., Intererit multum Davusne loquatur an heros.] - Horace
We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. - Mary McCarthy
The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light. - Felix Adler
And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy. - Alexander Chase
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. - Henry V. Miller
O can't you see, brother, Death's a congested road for fighters now, and hero a cheap label. - C. D. Andrews