Quotes About Heroes

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is ''sensitive;'' or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture -- in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers." Andrea Dworkin
"Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket." Doug Horton
"Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid... He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world." Raymond Chandler
"A hero is simply someone who rises above his own human weaknesses, for an hour, a day, a year, to do something stirring." Betty Deramus
"Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields which have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes, greater than the illustrious heroes." Victor Hugo
"One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being." May Sarton
"Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities." Daniel Boorstin