I have lots of heroes: anyone and everyone who does whatever they can to leave the natural world better than they found it.
Celluloid heroes never feel any pain.
The more information you have, the more human our heroes become and consequently the less mysterious and godlike. They need to be godlike.
A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are commonly treated as enemies by it.
"Something was wrong with Luke," Annabeth muttered, poking at the fire with her knife. "Did you notice the way he was acting?" "He looked pretty pleased to me," I said. "Like he'd spent a nice day torturing heroes. " "That's not true! There was something wrong with him. He looked. . . nervous. He told his monsters to spare me. He wanted to tell me something. " "Probably, 'Hi, Annabeth! Sit here with me and watch while I tear your friends apart. It'll be fun!"
Don't forget who your heroes are, what they mean to you, and why they mean that to you.
I think people are screw-ups, and even our greatest heroes are deeply flawed human beings. People make bad decisions for all the wrong reasons, and then somehow they'll do the right thing, and then somehow they'll save somebody, or they'll be compassionate. Horrible people can do wonderful things, and wonderful people can do horrible things.
Tell me your heroes and I'll tell you how your life will end up
Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.
For some heroes, nothing is impossible
I love heroes that really go through ordeals and then come out the other end completely changed.
Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done
It has become a common feeling, I believe, as we have watched our heroes falling over the years, that our own small stone of activism, which might not seem to measure up to the rugged boulders of heroism we have so admired, is a paltry offering toward the building of an edifice of hope. Many who believe this choose to withhold their offerings out of shame. This is the tragedy of the world. For we can do nothing substantial toward changing our course on the planet, a destructive one, without rousing ourselves, individual by individual, and bringing our small, imperfect stones to the pile.
Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.
I have learned from first hand experience that war is the destroyer of everything that is good in the world, it turns our young into soulless killers and we tell them that they are heroes when they master the 'art' of killing.
We want to see ourselves reflected in our heroes. Unfortunately most of us don't look like Arnold Schwarzenegger.
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists.
The American heroes are wearing camo. That's not me.
Higher than "thou shalt" stands "I will" (the heroes), and higher than "I will" stands "I am" (the Greek gods).
Of two heroes, he who esteems his rivals the most is the greatest.