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

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

— Hayao Miyazaki

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

— Lev Grossman

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

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

Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.

— Anonymous

“He took his time getting to her, as if he was sure she’d wait, sure of his own strength to hold her, even at…

— Cynthia Voigt

The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

— Saul Williams

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

— George S. Patton

“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

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

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

— Goldie