Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves…

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There is heroism to be found in great battles, it is true; warriors with stable knees who fight and know that they will die…

— Kevin Hearne

“I can think of only two movies with women killers we’re meant to sympathize with, and both because they’d been sexually assaulted—Thelma and Louise…

— Kameron Hurley

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“He had read lots of stories where heroes succeeded in spite of long odds, where they accomplished a task that everyone else had failed…

— Holly Black

“It’s hard when you lose someone. I’ve had it happen. It changes your world, everything, but it doesn’t change who you are. People who…

— Alex Flinn

Geography was not furthered by the achievement, scientific progress was scarcely hastened, and nothing new was discovered. Yet the names of Hillary and Tenzing…

— Edmund Hillary

“People who never did a heroic deed themselves are very particular as to how heroes behave...”

— Annie Brown

“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an…

— Mike Alsford

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

— Vicky Kaushal

Adam has always had . . . heroic tendencies.” I touched Adam’s arm. “He’s my hero.” There was another pause. . . “That is…

— Patricia Briggs

I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he…

— Scott Snyder

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all”

— John Dorian- scrubs

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel