The novel I’m currently working on is titled Hero Rehearsals. I’m starting each chapter with a quote about heroes, and I’ve found some great ones. I’ll share my top ten here, and I’d love any you might have to offer.
10. Romance is at the heart of our lives. The truly blessed among us find a hero or heroine of our own to love, then root for our children to do the same. – M.A. Jewell
9. Every damsel in distress deserves a hero. – Tracy Anne Warren
8. If your hero is a firefighter, your heroine better be an arsonist. – Linda Howard
7. I don’t want to be the superhero’s girlfriend. I want to be the superhero. – Popular Meme
6. Be your own hero. It’s cheaper than a movie ticket. – Douglas Horton
5. She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable. -Louisa May Alcott
4. When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you; but when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it’s your laugh. So you become the hero rather than the victim of the joke. -Nora Ephron
3. Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel. -Diana Wynne Jones
2. If you can’t be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken. -Ina May Gaskin
1. But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way. – Jane Austen
BONUS: All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged. After all, what’s good enough for Jane Austen ought to be good enough for anyone. But it’s a lie. The story is about to begin, and every day will be a new piece of the plot. – Mary Ann Shaffer
Your turn! Share your favorite quotes about heroes or make up your own!!!
Angela Ruth Strong survived breast cancer, works as a flight attendant, and uses her own crazy life experiences as inspiration for the stories she writes. Her books have earned TOP PICK in Romantic Times, been nominated for a Christy, won the Cascade Award, and become Amazon bestsellers. She and her husband also got to play extras when her novel Finding Love in Big Sky was adapted for film. To help aspiring authors, Angela started IDAhope Writers where she lives in Idaho.
It’s never about proving your worth as a hero. It about having the humility to let your heroine rescue you when you need it. It’s also about realizing that you need it more often than you think.
“A true hero isn’t measured by the size of his strength but by the strength of his heart.”
Hercules
Personally, I like your bonus quote the best! A hero is someone who will step in and help even if he doesn’t know the person.
Thanks for sharing today and visiting.
I love #3 and the bonus.
Opps I love the photo with the fingers.
I remember there was a popular meme that said “I prefer the villain to the hero, the hero sacrifices his heroine to save the world, the villain sacrifices the world to save his wife” I’ll borrow it and modify it.
“Whoever believes himself to be a hero will sacrifice his heroine for the greater good, a villain will sacrifice everyone for his heroine, a true hero will choose to sacrifice himself to save his heroine and contribute to the world in which she lives.”
I think that’s the real mentality of the hero, after all…Would any woman fall in love with a man who used you as a shield so he wouldn’t get hit by a bullet? and a guy who would sacrifice the whole world because he doesn’t care about anyone but you frankly isn’t romantic sounds scary and obsessive.
“Every man needs to be the knight in shining armor to the woman who holds his heart.” ~ Laurel Hawkes
Love these! My paraphrase of a favorite quote is: a hero is someone who’s scared to death but still chooses to do what’s right anyway. It’s not quite the actual quote but I tweaked it to work using hero.
Aww… Lincoln, you’re a great example of a hero.
Yes! I think this one might be in there too.
Same. And I love your quote.
Awesome. Thanks for letting me share. :-)
That is so great. Thanks for sharing! I won’t forget this one.
So romantic. <3
Good stuff. And I tweak quotes too. I remember them better as what they mean to me.
I’m loving the quotes. I wish I could think of one.
can’t think of any
I don’t know any hero quotes so I had to google them….here’s my favorites!
“Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary”~ Gerard Way
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” ~Arthur Ashe
“No one was ever named “Hero” for following the crowd. Heroes set their own course.” ~Johnathan Lockwood Huie
“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”~ Christopher Reeves
“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.”~General Norman Schwarzkoph Jr.
Don’t idolize someone who is not worthy by their character.
Love your quotes. The older I get the more I value the heroicness of kindness. It struck me as so true when I read it somewhere alas I don’t recall where or the exact wording.