Best Great Hero Quotes

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Within the microcosm of a film you get drawn to people. There are certain projects you care enormously about, and ‘The Edge Of Love’ was one because I was portraying a great hero of mine, Dylan Thomas.

I put the number 7 on my t-shirt because this is the number of my championships but also because it was the number of Barry Sheene, who was a great hero of mine and a truly great racer.

Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero.

Walt Disney was my great hero.

I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn’t a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board.

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

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.

All great heroes have a flaw. It’s one of the things that makes them heroes.

But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world’s great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found.

I was also a science fiction and fantasy fan, growing up, in games and books and movies. I love Tolkien and I love Dungeons & Dragons, so the opportunity to have a fantasy-based RTS, or real time strategy game, at that time, seemed cool. I started playing it, and the early games were simple, but fun and they had these great heroes.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes.

I am no longer a divine biped. I am no longer the freest German after Goethe, as Ruge named me in healthier days. I am no longer the great hero No. 2, who was compared with the grape-crowned Dionysius, whilst my colleague No. 1 enjoyed the title of a Grand Ducal Weimarian Jupiter. I am no longer a joyous, somewhat corpulent Hellenist, laughing cheerfully down upon the melancholy Nazarenes. I am now a poor fatally-ill Jew, an emaciated picture of woe, an unhappy man.

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.

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

If we [gays] want to be equal under the law, we must now – as the great heroes of the Civil Rights movement of 1963 and 1964 showed us – turn our attention to the federal government.

The thing about grown ups is that they’re always wanting you to be this Great Hero and Leader. What’s wrong with being NORMAL, for Thor’s sake? What’s wrong with just being SO-SO at stuff? They’re just totally unrealistic.

Honestly, when you think of any great action hero or any great hero out there or great character actor, you kind of transcend the character. You just don’t love the character, you love the guy. In any of the great action stars, you see the guy doing the work.

If we might be able to save this world, how can we walk away? Too many people around here have given up! Galloran said heroes sacrifice for causes; they do things that others hide from. I may not be some great hero, but I won’t hide from this. I would never live with myself.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.