“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.”

— Gerard Way

“Live your life like you’re the hero in your movie.”

— Joe Rogan

“The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.”

— George S. Patton Jr.

“Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.”

— Kobe Bryant

“One person can and does make a difference.”

— Albert Schweitzer

“Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’”

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

“I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.”

— Maya Angelou

“Those who say that we’re in a time when there are no heroes, they just don’t know where to look.”

— Ronald Reagan

“Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.”

— Seneca the Younger

“Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.”

— George R.R. Martin

“I went from zero to my own hero.”

— Katy Perry

“If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.”

— Noam Chomsky

“There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Every man is a hero of his own story.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“Live as a villain, die as a hero.”

— Banksy

“The absurd hero’s refusal to hope becomes his singular ability to live in the present with passion.”

— Albert Camus

“Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.”

— Julius Evola

“One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.”

— Charlie Chaplin

“Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

“Love is a hero’s journey, and the hero’s journey is a noble but difficult path.”

— Marianne Williamson

“Not every flying hero has a cape.”

— Michael Jordan

“We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.”

— Tom Hiddleston

“We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.”

— Fred Rogers

“My heroes are and were my parents. I can’t see having anyone else as my heroes.”

— Michael Jordan

“If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they’ve all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions – every villain is a hero in his own mind.”

— Tom Hiddleston

“In the face of pain there are no heroes.”

— George Orwell

“I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read, because he is like a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.”

— Conor McGregor

“The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“Steal five dollars and you’re a common thief. Steal thousands and you’re either the government or a hero.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.”

— Charles Dickens

“As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.”

— Ernest Hemingway

“The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action.”

— Albert Camus

“Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.”

— Paul Auster

“I’m just a man, not a hero. just a boy, who wants to sing this song.”

— Gerard Way

“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.”

— Wally Schirra

“The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.”

— Henry Rollins

“We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.”

— Helen Hayes