Top 157 Best Hero Quotes & Sayings 2023

Hero Quotes

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

Hard times don’t create heroes. It is during the hard times when the ‘hero’ within us is revealed.

Bob Riley

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Norman Schwarzkopf

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

Debi Mazar

A hero is somebody who voluntarily walks into the unknown.

Tom Hanks

When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

Tecumseh

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I’m saying to be a hero is means you step across the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making a sacrifice. Heroes always take a risk. Heroes always deviant. Heroes always doing something that most people don’t and we want to change – I want to democratise heroism to say any of us can be a hero.

Philip Zimbardo

 Funny Hero Quotes

People always ask me, ‘Were you funny as a child?’ Well, no, I was an accountant.

A man commented to his lunch companion: My wife had a funny dream last night. She dreamed she’d married a millionaire. You’re lucky, sighed the companion. My wife dreams that in the daytime.

The golden rule of work is that the bosses jokes are ALWAYS funny.

God writes a lot of comedy… the trouble is, he’s stuck with so many bad actors who don’t know how to play funny.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage.

It’s funny the way most people love the dead. Once you’re dead, you’re made for life.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but ‘That’s funny.

Funny thing how you first meet the woman that you marry. I first met the wife in a tunnel of love. She was digging it.

A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

 Inspiring Hero Quotes

It’s not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.

Just because someone stumbles and loses their path, doesn’t mean they’re lost forever.

Men don’t follow titles, they follow courage.

Just treat me the same. No better, no worse.

Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.

I shouldn’t be alive… unless it was for a reason. I’m not crazy, Pepper. I just finally know what I have to do. And I know in my heart that it’s right.

But if you make yourself more than just a man, if you devote yourself to an ideal, and if they can’t stop you, then you become something else entirely.

I don’t like bullies, I don’t care where they’re from.

Until you start believing in yourself, you ain’t gonna have a life!

Be Your Own Hero Quotes

What if no one is coming to discover your hidden talents, to acknowledge your untapped potential, to heal you, to save you from yourself? What if the saviour was always supposed to be you? What if that’s why it hasn’t worked out with anyone else?

If you can find no one to become your ideal to aspire to, no one to be your ultimate example, your idol, your motivation— don’t fret! You can and you must become your own ultimate aspiration, your own example, your own idol, ideal, motivation! You go and be what you haven’t found yet!

Be yourself….and make the world adjust!

Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.

I am free to dream.

I am free to love.

I am free to write.

Be yourself; you have nothing more valuable to offer the world than the original you.

Be true to who you are. Don’t let the world tell you who to be.

Or one could say that society is to ridged for the softness of a beautiful soul. Faith has its place, and that can never be taken away, So chin up. Don’t let the world conform you or undervalue what and who you are. They can not kill your flame unless you let them.

Defeat the demons of self-doubt and self-loathing by being your own hero/heroine of self-compassion.

Jealous people can be quite mean in an attempt to feel better about themselves, but you do not have to give them that power.

Superhero Quotes

“Good is not a thing you are. It’s a thing you do.”

“You’re much stronger than you think you are. Trust me.”

“When the mob and the press and the whole world tell you to move, your job is to plant yourself like a tree beside the river of truth, and tell the whole world: ‘No. You  move.’”

“I think of every reason there is to live. Mothers, and sisters, and gorillas, and cake. Flying.”

“The universe is so big, it has no center. We are the center.”

“Do good to others and every man can be a Superman.”

“What do I do?” “You fight.”

“Everything doesn’t have to be about fear. There’s room in our line of work for hope, too.”

“Friendship is real, yo, and it kicked your butt!”

“Bees. My god.”

My Hero Academia Quotes

“All men are not created equal.” – Izuku Midoriya

“My motivation might seem trivial compared to yours, but I can’t lose, either.  I have to live up to the hopes of those who supported me.” – Izuku Midoriya

“Don’t worry about what other people think. Hold your head up high and plunge forward.” – Izuku Midoriya

“When the enemy becomes certain of their victory, that will be our chance.” – Izuku Midoriya

“Sometimes I do feel like I’m a failure. Like there’s no hope for me. But even so, I’m not gonna give up. Ever!” – Izuku Midoriya

“Whatever you say All Might, I’ll step up to this challenge! As long as you’re by my side, I can do anything. That’s how I feel anyway.” – Izuku Midoriya

“I have to work harder than anyone else to make it! I’ll never catch up otherwise… I want be like you… Like you! The strongest hero.” – Izuku Midoriya

“A smiling, dependable, cool hero…

That’s what I wanna be! That’s why

I’m giving it everything. For everyone!” – Izuku Midoriya

“The deeper the darkness the more dazzling the light shines!” – Izuku Midoriya

“Dreams can become reality!” – Izuku Midoriya

 Losing A Hero Quotes

“A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.” –Joseph Campbell

“This nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.” –Elmer Davis

“Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You’ll find what you need to furnish it–memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.” –Ted Williams

“Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” –Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.” –Benjamin Disraeli

“It doesn’t take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.” –H. Norman Schwarzkopf

“Sweet is the memory of distant friends! Like the mellow rays of the departing sun, it falls tenderly, yet sadly, on the heart.” –Washington Irving

“I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don’t understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” –Sophia Loren

“Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.” –Jennifer L. Armentrout

“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.” –Gabriel García Márquez