Hero Quotes

Speaking of luck, Isabelle Lightwood is a total babe. Actually, she's better than a babe: She's a hero. She came all the way here to tell the world you were hers. You're telling me she doesn't know another hero when she sees one? You're going to figure out what you're doing here. Isabelle Lightwood believes in you, and for what it's worth, I do too.

~ Cassandra Clare

A real hero doesn't expect to be thanked or even recognized.

~ Tom Collins

Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don't often see them is because we don't bother to look.There are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others.Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice.

~ Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

~ Dean Koontz

I just want one person I can rescue and I want one person who needs me. Who can't live without me. I want to be a hero, but not just one time.

~ Chuck Palahniuk

He thinks he’ll be remembered as the villain in the story”She snorted.“But I forgot to tell him,” I said too quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key.”“Oh?”I shrugged, “He was the one who let me out.

~ Sarah J. Maas

In my opinion, actual heroism, like actual love, is a messy, painful, vulnerable business—and I wanted to try to reflect that.

~ John Green

Drizzt Do'Urden had followed a line of precepts based upon discipline and ultimate optimism. He fought for a better world because he believed that a better world could and would be made. He had never held any illusions that he would change the world, of course, or even a substantial portion of it, but he always held strongly that fighting to better just his own little pocket of the world was a worthwhile cause.

~ R.a. Salvatore

Heroes are more than just stories, they’re people. And people are complicated; people are strange. Nobody is a hero through and through, there’s always something in them that’ll turn sour... you’ll learn it one day. There are no heroes, only villains who win.

~ Joel Cornah

But everything had changed, and I was becoming more and more of who I really was, and less of this person I had thought I wanted to be.

~ Perry Moore

That’s what it takes to be a hero, a little gem of innocence inside you that makes you want to believe that there still exists a right and wrong, that decency will somehow triumph in the end.

~ Lise Hand

Griffin, please,” she whispered.“Do you want me?” he asked.“Yes!” She tossed her head restlessly. She’d explode if he didn’t give her release soon.“Do you need me?” He kissed her nipple too gently.“Please, please, please.”“Do you love me?”And somehow, despite her extremis, she saw the gaping hole of the trap. She peered up at him blindly in the dark. She couldn’t see his face, his expression.“Griffin,” she sighed hopelessly.“You can’t say it, can you?” he whispered. “Can’t admit it either.

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

I used to be embarrassed by my mom, but now I know what she is—she’s a hero.

~ Carrie Jones

Love is willing to become to villain so that the one who you love can stay a hero.

~ Josephine Angelini

While one may lose much because of avarice, nothing was ever accomplished by abstinence.

~ Isuna Hasekura

There are only three types of citizenship: hero, villain, nobody.

~ Toba Beta

The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like a child who builds a house of blocks and then destroys it with one vicious kick.

~ Grace Metalious

The people need a hero. But all they've got is . . . me.

~ Christopher Healy

Where once we aspired to be more like our heroes, today we try to make our heroes more like us.

~ James Rozoff

I don't think there's too much normal out there anymore. Though there's still plenty of average to go around.

~ John David Anderson

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

~ Nathaniel Hawthorne

He wasn’t a hero. He wasn’t the man who stepped forward and saved the innocent. He was lost himself. Shadows had invaded a long time ago and stolen his life. But he would give anything he had left to be the man who found a way to save Judith

~ Christine Feehan

Those novels with old-fashioned heroes and heroines in them -- are ruinous!

~ William Dean Howells

By living a life “against nature,” the deviant or pervert becomes a hero or heroine in decadent fiction.

~ Asti Hustvedt

After all, you are a hero and everything.

~ V.s. Carnes

If, as has been postulated before, heroism happens when courage meets circumstance, what if the circumstances are mundane?

~ Brad Herzog

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound.

~ Brad Herzog

Fighting does not make you a hero. Love does.

~ Sameh Elsayed

I asked my Greek chorus about this sort of hero: the Underappreciated Personification of Resolve.

~ Brad Herzog

The wind picks up, but instead of putting his sweatshirt back on, he just fits the hood over his head. As he walks forward, it billows behind him like a cape.

~ Robin Roe

I go where I'm needed.

~ Sofi Benitez

There was no sign he’d even been in a fight –Fucking Golden Boy.

~ Liz Thebart

You wake up one day and realise that your struggles and battles are your own and no one else ́s. And there is no one more capable to fight all the odds and enemies except you and you alone!

~ Tina Sequeira

The devotion of one man had given strength and courage to all.

~ Victor Hugo

My mother describes me as 'a real hero . . . just like your grandfather'. But I do not know what to do with this accolade for her son, other than let her have moment, or it helps her back here.

~ Jake Wood

From there, a more difficult period began. Even the villains, the world's worst people, the one percent, what have you, imagine themselves to be the heroes of their own stories, and I saw myself this way. I, too, could be a hero or protagonist, and not some mere bystander in the greater drama of someone else's life. It was awkward to see a murderer as a hero, so I had to constantly remind myself of how Auggie's stepfather had been selfish and evil.

~ Alex Kudera

I didn’t yet know that romantic heroes—famous and not—are usually aimless nomads in disguise.

~ Sherman Alexie

And the best sort of villain is smart and subtle and so very tricky that you don't even know he's the villain, because he thinks himself the hero in his own story.

~ Roseanna M. White

It’s easy to be a hero when your own survival is aligned with someone else’s, when your victory is a victory for your entire clan.

~ Delilah S. Dawson

To be a hero holds honor but to be a legend is to live forever.

~ Julian Quintero