Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.
Philip G. ZimbardoTags: heroes behavior social-psychology
Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.
Peter S. BeagleTags: heroes
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.
Walter M. Schirra, Sr.Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.
Brodi AshtonHeroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them.
Brodi AshtonTags: ambiguity heroes villains
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.
Criss JamiTags: motivational life inspirational success death courage winning living heroism heroes crazy definition hero clever soldier warrior heroic courageous stand-out stand living-life-to-the-fullest
When you're truly awesome, you know that it's actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.
Criss JamiTags: curse heroes wish awesome burden superhero
Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.
Peter KreeftTags: philosophy christianity spirituality heroes theology culture catholicism culture-critique jesus-shock
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. To begin my life with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I have been informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o’clock at night. It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry, simultaneously.
Charles DickensTags: heroes babies birth coincidence clocks midnight famous-beginnings
There is an old saying that there is no country as unhappy as one that need heroes."
(King Pelles the Sure)
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