1. “A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne
2. “People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.” ― Chris Colfer
3. “A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.” ― Christopher Reeve
4. “To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.” ― Criss Jami
5. “A hero is someone right who doesn’t change.” ― George Foreman
6. “It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” ― Norman Schwarzkpof
7. “Nothing is given to man on earth – the struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.” ― Andrew Bernstein
8. “A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.” ― English Proverb
9. “The hero is never the star of the story.” ― Marilyn Manson
10. “For one thing, I don’t think that anybody in any war thinks of themselves as a hero.” ― Steven Spielberg
11. “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
12. “As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.” ― John F. Kennedy
13. “We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up… discovering we have the strength to stare it down.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt
14. “Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.” ― Fred Rogers
15. “A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.” ― Hercules
16. “Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the power they are graced with.” ― Brodi Ashton
17. “To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.” ― Mike Alsford
18. “You cannot be a hero without being a coward.” ― George Bernard Shaw
19. “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” ― Winston E. Churchill
20. “A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” ― Joseph Campbell
21. “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” ― Christoper Reeve
22. “Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
23. “The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.” ― Umberto Eco
24. “A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. “Don’t forget, you are the hero of your own story.” ― Greg Boyle
26. “A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.” ― Novalis
27. “The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero act. An immense difference.” ― Henry Miller
28. “The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.” ― Henry David Thoreau
29. “Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.” ― Calvin Coolidge
30. “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.” ― Christopher Reeve
31. “To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.” ― Simone Weil
