Top 100 Hero Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.”

— Robert F. Kennedy

52. “When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

53. “It’s better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.”

— Emiliano Zapata

54. “Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.”

— Joan of Arc

55. “A hero can be anyone, even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat on a young boy’s shoulders to let him know the world hadn’t ended.”

— Christopher Nolan

56. “Do you want to do something beautiful for God? There is a person who needs you. This is your chance.”

— Mother Teresa

57. “We must use our lives to make the world a better place to live, not just to acquire things. That is what we are put on the earth for.”

— Dolores Huerta

58. “I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

59. “In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.”

— Jim Valvano

60. “I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and kind, and honest.”

— Veronica Roth

61. “Don’t ever let someone tell you that you can’t do something.”

— Chris Gardner

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

— George S. Patton Jr.

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

— Joe Rogan

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

— Maya Angelou

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

— Benjamin Disraeli

66. “One person can and does make a difference.”

— Albert Schweitzer

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

— Kobe Bryant

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

— Swami Vivekananda

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

— Ronald Reagan

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

— Brandon Sanderson

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

— Seneca the Younger

72. “I went from zero to my own hero.”

— Katy Perry

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

— George R.R. Martin

74. “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

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

— Noam Chomsky

76. “Live as a villain, die as a hero.”

— Banksy

77. “Not every flying hero has a cape.”

— Michael Jordan

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

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

— Julius Evola

80. “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

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

— Charlie Chaplin

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

— Albert Camus

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

— Marianne Williamson

84. “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

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

— Michael Jordan

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

— Helen Hayes

87. “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

88. “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

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

— George Orwell

90. “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

91. “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

92. “Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.”

— Paul Tudor Jones

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

— Ernest Hemingway

94. “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

95. “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

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

— Terry Pratchett

97. “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

98. “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

99. “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

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

— Gerard Way