Being a hero Quote by Anton Chekhov

“I detest common heroes and moderate feelings, the sort that exist in real life”

— Gustave Flaubert

To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.

— Anonymous

A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental.…

— Mark Helprin

Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

— Philip Zimbardo

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do…

— Philip Zimbardo

“...heroes are sometimes the most ordinary -seeming people. It reminds us that as ordinary as we might be, we can, if we choose, take…

— Daniel James Brown

“...An ethnically heterogeneous society without a unifying hero is bound to be torn apart by internal strife. Only a man capable of bringing about…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself,…

— Mark Twain

If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

— Thomas Carlyle

Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their…

— Viola Davis