1. A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.-Dan Simmons
2. I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.-Maya Angelou
3. The hero sees values beyond what’s possible. That’s the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile.-John Gardner
4. 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
5. The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.-Jean Genet
6. Nothing is given to man on earth – 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
7. Real change in society must start from individual initiative.-The Dalai Lama
8. Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.-Mahatma Gandhi
10. The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.-Henry David Thoreau
11. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.-Ralph Waldo Emerson
12. The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.-Benjamin Disraeli
13. The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.-Henry Miller
14. A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.-English Proverb
15. The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.-Johann Kaspar Lavater
16. Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.-Will Rogers
17. Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.-Gerald W. Johnson
18. Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.-Jean Jacques Rousseau
19. Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.-Calvin Coolidge
20. I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.-Bob Dylan
21. 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.-Felix Adler
22. 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.-Arthur Ashe
23. The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.-Henry Ward Beecher
24. To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.-Charles Horton Cooley
25. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.-F. Scott Fitzgerald
26. A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.-Christopher Reeve
27. Not the glittering weapon fights the fight, but rather the hero’s heart.-Proverb
28. The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
29. A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them…-Jim Morrison