One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.

Pat Metheny's my hero, man. I've got so much from Metheny's music.

— Goldie

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

— Hayao Miyazaki

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is…

— Andrew Bernstein

“Bruce Wayne/Batman: A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy's…

— Christopher Nolan

One of the amazing things about Spider-Man is that you don’t see skin colour when he’s in the suit. You don’t see any religious…

— Andrew Garfield

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues.

— Lev Grossman

“Why do we like these stories so? Why do we tell them over and over? Why have we made a folk hero of a…

— Joan Didion

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

— George S. Patton

A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who, by indigestion, a…

— Lord Chesterfield

No hero to me is the man who, by easy shedding of his blood, purchases fame: my hero is he who, without death, can…

— Martial

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man…

— Norman Mailer

We are conditioned to believe that the hero is always a man, but it might not necessarily be so.

— Vicky Kaushal

A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple reassuring putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to let him…

— The Dark Knight Rises

A hero can be anyone. Even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a young boy's shoulders to…

— Christopher Nolan