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“Heroes are not made. They are born out of circumstances and rise to the occasion when their spirit can no longer coexist with the hypocrisy of injustice to others.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”
― Frank Miller

“Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver 5 minutes longer.”
― Ronald Reagan

“The real heroes are the librarians and teachers who at no small risk to themselves refuse to lie down and play dead for censors.”
― Bruce Coville

“Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.”
― Brodi Ashton, Everneath

“She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable.”
― Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

“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 are two kinds of heroes. Heroes who shine in the face of great adversity, who perform an amazing feat in a difficult situation. And heroes who live among us, who do their work unceremoniously, unnoticed by many of us, but who make a difference in the lives of others.

Heroes are selfless people who perform extraordinary acts. The mark of heroes is not necessarily the result of their action, but what they are willing to do for others and for their chosen cause. Even if they fail, their determination lives on for others to follow. The glory lies not in the achievement, but in the sacrifice.”
― Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

“Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.”
― Peter Kreeft, Jesus-Shock

“People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.”
― Chris Colfer

“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 and beliefs and commitments.”
― Kevin Costner

“I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words”
― Alfred de Vigny, Stello

“Mere words cannot defeat a true hero. Unless they happen to be the words to some sort of Instant Death Spell. Magic is scary.”
― Christopher Healy, The Hero's Guide to Storming the Castle

“You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.”
― Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

“But heroes, at times, had to be fools.”
― Steve Berry, The Venetian Betrayal

“What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
― Edward Abbey

“Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

“Only in death will we have our own names since only in death are we no longer part of the effort. In death we become heroes.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."
(King Pelles the Sure)”
― Peter S. Beagle, We Never Talk about My Brother

“War is not a means but an end. It makes violence respectable and makes sadists look like heroes.”
― Mary Horlock

“Heroes get kingdoms and princesses, and they take regular exercise, and when they smile the light glints off their teeth, ting ”
― Terry Pratchett

“We need heroes, however outlandish, because although we might not be slaying real dragons, we all have our quests.”
― Russ Thorne

“Why do we love heroes? Because life is a fight.”
― Habyarimana Bangambiki

“A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.”
― Leon Leyson

“Heroes aren't heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.”
― Ninya Tippett, The Mischievous Mrs. Maxfield

“Garahel always used to say that heroism was just another word for horror, and maybe a worse one. A hero always feels that he has to do what's right. Sometimes that leads to tormenting himself with doubt long after the deed is done.”
― Liane Merciel