Ends Quote by Adam Phillips

“Sometimes stories get on my nerves--especially the ones where unfair things keep happening to the hero over and over, for no reason at all,…

— Susan Vaught

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals…

— Kevin Costner

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

— Rick Riordan

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

— William C. Brown

In fact, most deaths are not tragic. Few people die because of a flaw in character, which is the essential element of tragedy. They…

— John Chancellor

“True heroes and ideas never fall in the final sense of the word. They can only encounter temporary setbacks in their difficult journey to…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Genuine heroism for man is still the power to support contradictions, no matter how glaring or hopeless they may seem.

— Ernest Becker

“Heroes aren’t people who are somehow unafraid in a crisis—heroes are the people who feel afraid and still do what needs to be done.”

— Cora Seton

“A hero isn’t defined by winning. Loads of heroes die in the effort. Most of them never get any recognition. No, a hero is…

— G. Norman Lippert

“The real heroes are those who rebuild their lives using adversity as a stepping stone to greatness in the midst of the chaos life…

— Nikki Rowe

“...and I sometimes think that the fading out of the individual personality is what one should desire, not the status of a hero—a sort…

— Hilary Mantel

“Every society needs heroes. And every society has them. The reason we don't often see them is because we don't bother to look. There…

— Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono