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To harbor spiteful feelings against ordinary people for not being heroes is possible only for narrow-minded or embittered man.
Sep 17, 2025
Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.
Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being a hero isn't what all these folks are here to do. They're here to do their jobs." -Jaina Solo
Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.
Long ago I dreamed of being a hero in your company" Halli said Huskily "I'm sorry to say your reality disappoints me
Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the same time, it's also important to tell stories about women's triumphs, women being slackers, women being criminals, women being heroes.
I wouldn't mind being a hero to a kid. I grew up idolizing players, so I know how important that is for a lot of younger kids.
No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!
What's the point of being a hero when everyone thinks you're a villain?
People fantasize about being a hero and helping someone in trouble. Batman is that fantasy realized-not just for Bruce Wayne, but for the audience. Inwardly, Bruce Wayne is still an adolescent watching his parents being murdered. That will never leave him. And people really relate to that.
Rohan, if being a hero is having the courage to resist using power arbitrarily, then you are a hero, beloved.
I have a problem with being a hero, but that's another problem.
The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things...Things must happen when it is time for them to happen.
Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn’t involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.
He recalled Galloran stating that being a hero meant doing what was right regardless of the consequences. The thought sent a thrill through him. Galloran had been in this same situation and had made the right choice. Jason felt less alone. Malodor had claimed that his opponents had no heroes among them. But Galloran was proof to the contrary. And Jason would be evidence as well. p. 420
I want to give you something.” He slid the ring off his finger. “Up until this week, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life than to wear this ring. Not as a piece of jewelry, but because I thought I could find meaning in saving others, in being a hero. But the meaning I’ve finally found in my life is from meeting you.” He set the ring on the palm of his hand and held it out. “I want you to have it.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.
As I see it, part of the art of being a hero is knowing when you don't need to be one anymore.
...where's the skill in being a hero if you were always destined to do it?
You never have to wait long, or look far, to be reminded of how thin the line is between being a hero or a goat.
Many of my movies have strong female leads - brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.
Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.
Children demand that their heroes should be freckle less, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.
The idol of today pushes the hero of yesterday out of our recollection; and will, in turn, be supplanted by his successor of tomorrow.
We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.
Heroes represent the best of ourselves, respecting that we are human beings. A hero can be anyone from Gandhi to your classroom teacher, anyone who can show courage when faced with a problem. A hero is someone who is willing to help others in his or her best capacity.
This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.
Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so .
The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
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
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake.
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.
A happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
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.
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.
Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.