It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who go into battle.

Heroes are very human, most of them; very easily touched by praise.

The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

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

The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure.

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.

The contemporary hero, the mythical pattern in the imitation of whom we would live, remains as yet undefined. We have no hero; what is more to the point, we suspect hero worship.

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

The hero is suffered to be himself.

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.