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Christopher Reeve quote: A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and...

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!

The things we do outlast our mortality. The things we do are like monuments that people build to honor heroes after they've died. They're like the pyramids that the Egyptians built to honor the pharaohs. Only instead of being made of stone, they're made out of the memories people have of you.

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

Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it's my responsibility to make it better.

Everybody loves the underdog, and then they take an underdog and make him a hero and they hate him.

The people who carried the burden, who marked in strange field in search of an answer, and ended their journeys an unwilling hero.

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.

Heroes and cowards feel the same fear and action creates opportunities.

One blob of red in the wrong place and the audience isn't looking at the hero, they're looking at a patch of curtain (or something similar) and your whole effect is lost.

But if we come back, if German men come back, if British men come back, and Japs, and French, and all the other men, all of us talking, writing, painting, making movies of heroes, and cockroaches and foxholes and blood, then future generations will always be doomed to future Hitlers. It's never occurred to boys to have contempt for wars, to point to soldiers' pictures in history books, laughing at them. If German boys had learned to be contemptuous of violence, Hitler would have had to take up knitting to keep his ego warm.

A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

Growing up, my parents were my heroes, in the way they conducted their lives.

I've been involved in one or two successes in classical plays but nothing to touch the excitement and the glamour and the gratification of being a children's hero for so long.

No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.

Not disown my past or upbringing, but I'd admired American actors, really American movie star - particularly the rebel heroes of the '50s.

I pinned Kurt Angle two weeks ago in that tag match...so...I think I've proven that I can hang with the Olympic Hero.

If we take a small step in extolling peacemakers as much as honoring war heroes, we will be making a giant leap towards peace.

Real heroes are others, those who have suffered in their soul, in their heart, in their spirit, in their mind, for their loved ones. Those are the real heroes. Im just a cyclist.

Historically, in my generation, all of my heroes and heroines have had issues and problems. We all do.

I fancy myself as being very good at Guitar Hero. I really don't play any other videogames. I kind of fell in love with Guitar Hero the first time I played it, and went out and bought a system for it.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.