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

That’s not what an ad for a car is—an ad for a car is a football hero, an actress, the car doing some crazy thing like going up a mountain or something. If you’ve ever turned on your television set, you know that hundreds of millions of dollars are spent to try to create uninformed consumers who will make irrational choices—that’s what advertising is.” 

“We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas.” 

“A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. ” 

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

“Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or persons with an unhealthy fascination with death. ” 

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency.

Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.

Each man is a hero and an oracle to somebody.

It will never make any difference to a hero what the laws are. His greatness will shine and accomplish itself unto the end, whether they second him or not.

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

The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.

I like to say I'm not a hero.

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.

"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."

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

The one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men.

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.