Live as a villain, die as a hero.
Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.
Steal five dollars and you’re a common thief. Steal thousands and you’re either the government or a hero.
Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.
I’m just a man, not a hero. Just a boy, who wants to sing this song.
The average is the borderline that keeps mere men in their place. Those who step over the line are heroes by the very act. Go.
We’re all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.
If you look at all of the villains in the course of human history, they’ve all believed, delusionally, in the virtue of their actions – every villain is a hero in his own mind.
Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’ ‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.
Nobody is a villain in their own story. We’re all the heroes of our own stories.
I am the sword in the darkness. I am the watcher on the walls. I am the fire that burns against the cold, the light that brings the dawn, the horn that wakes the sleepers, the shield that guards the realms of men.
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero.
May the Force be with you.
Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.
Translators are the shadow heroes of literature, the often forgotten instruments that make it possible for different cultures to talk to one another, who have enabled us to understand that we all, from every part of the world, live in one world.
Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well.
I have not yet begun to fight!
Don’t be a hero. Don’t have an ego.
It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.