- A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. ~ Author Unknown
- A coward is a hero with a wife, kids, and a mortgage. ~ Marvin Kitman
- A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- A hero is someone right who doesn’t change. ~ George Foreman
- A hero is someone we can admire without apology. ~ Kitty Kelley
- A hero is someone who can keep his mouth shut when he’s right. ~ Yiddish Proverb
- And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can. ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Be your own hero, it’s cheaper than a movie ticket. ~ Doug Horton
- Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth. ~ Will Rogers
- Calculation never made a hero. ~ John Henry Newman
- Every hero becomes a bore at last. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? ~ Jean Jacques Rousseau
- I’m a hero with coward’s legs. ~ Spike Milligan
- It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward. ~ Dolores Ibarruri
- It’s better to fly and stay alive than to die a hero. ~ Iranian Proverb
- Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. ~ Charles Maurice De Talleyrand
- Many heroes appear after the war. ~ Romanian Proverb
- Marriage is a romance in which the hero dies in the first chapter. ~ Author Unknown
- One murder makes a villain, millions often a hero. ~ Bishop Porteous
- One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. ~ May Sarton
- Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The hero appears only when the tiger is dead. ~ Myanmar Proverb
- To be a hero hangs on for a minute longer. ~ Norwegian Proverb
- We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. ~ Helen Hayes
- What is a hero without love for mankind? ~ Doris Lessing
- What is a society without a heroic dimension? ~ Jean Baudrillard
- You cannot be a hero without being a coward. ~ George Bernard Shaw
