Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.
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.
A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!
Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.
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.
Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.
The fear of God makes a hero; the fear of man makes a coward.
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.
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.
Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
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.
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.
In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.
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.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
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