Heroism proverbs

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◆ Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

- Gerard Way99

◆ Heroes didn't leap tall buildings or stop bullets with an outstretched hand; they didn't wear boots and capes. They bled, and they bruised, and their superpowers were as simple as listening, or loving. Heroes were ordinary people who knew that even if their own lives were impossibly knotted, they could untangle someone else's. And maybe that one act could lead someone to rescue you right back.

- Jodi Picoult99

◆ Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

- Fred Rogers99

◆ Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.

- J.R.R. Tolkien99

◆ The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

- Joss Whedon99

◆ One part brave, three parts fool!

- Christopher Paolini99

◆ Nobody who says, ‘I told you so' has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.

- Ursula K. Le Guin99

◆ The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

- Umberto Eco99

◆ In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ Heroism doesn't pay very well. I try to be cold-blooded and money-oriented, but I keep screwing it up.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

- Abigail Adams99

◆ Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.

- Piers Anthony99

◆ Sometimes standing against evil is more important than defeating it. The greatest heroes stand because it is right to do so, not because they believe they will walk away with their lives. Such selfless courage is a victory in itself.

- N.D. Wilson99

◆ Harry Dresden. Saving the world, one act of random destruction at a time.

- Jim Butcher99

◆ No one is an unjust villain in his own mind. Even - perhaps even especially - those who are the worst of us. Some of the cruelest tyrants in history were motivated by noble ideals, or made choices that they would call 'hard but necessary steps' for the good of their nation. We're all the hero of our own story.

- Jim Butcher99