Every entrepreneur has a different story and set of motivations, but there are some quotes that resonate with them all. Check out this compilation of hero quotes from entrepreneurs who have achieved great success. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re looking for some inspiration, these words of wisdom will help motivate you to keep moving forward.

The best hero quotes

1. What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. — Victor Hugo

2. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

3. Most of an award–show host’s job is showing up and keeping a cool head and soldiering through it, whether it’s the Oscars or the Hallmark Channel’s ‘Hero Dog Awards.’ — Rob Sheffield

4. What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion. — Victor Hugo

5. I think any good artist–and I’m not saying that I am one–takes notes and should first emulate their heroes and then try to move beyond them. — Patrick Stump

6. I have always included minority characters in my stories, often as heroes. — Stan Lee

7. As the hero learns, readers learn too. — Pamela Glass Kelly, From Inspiration to Publication: How to Succeed as a Children’s Writer: Advice from 15 Award Winning Writers

8. But heroes, at times, had to be fools. — Steve Berry, The Venetian Betrayal

9. I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. — Roger Federer

10. He who wins a thousand common hearts is entitled to some renown; but he who keeps undisputed sway over the heart of a coquette is indeed a hero. — Washington Irving

11. How different from the cosy world of Rüya’s detective novels, where authors never vexed a hero with more signs than he needed. — Orhan Pamuk

12. I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it. — Roberto Aguirre–Sacasa

13. Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature–all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won. — Twyla Tharp

14. Popularity is teenage heroin. — Shaun David Hutchinson, We Are the Ants

15. Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman’s question that is. — Ursula K. Le Guin

16. Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. — William Butler Yeats

17. The lies (Western slander) which well–meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only. — Thomas Carlyle, On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History

18. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes — Mark Twain

19. When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death–that is heroism. — Robert Green Ingersoll

20. To learn to die is an heroic work. — Mercy Otis Warren

21. But in the hero ne’er forget the man. — Mercy Otis Warren

22. There’s a thine line between being a hero and being a memory. — Optimus Prime

23. I use Fiction to face Reality And write sweet Stories to avoid the bitter ones. — Talia, Kay Kay, My Super Hero Koala Bear!

24. Haters, I’m not your enemy I’m your hero. Cheer up, you should be happy I’m here — Nicki Minaj

25. I hate Hera. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes

26. There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it. — Romain Rolland

27. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero — but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

28. The hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head–winds right for royal sails. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

29. No Tyson, the guy in the story did not attract the attention of a moose. Tyson is sad now. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes

30. The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning. — Zora Neale Hurston

31. If life is a poem, be the poet. If life is a story, be the author. If life is an adventure, be the hero. To live any other way is a waste of this experience we call life. — Steve Maraboli

32. Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

33. Natural selection saw to it that professional heroes who at a crucial moment tended to ask themselves questions like ‘What is my purpose in life?’ very quickly lacked both. — Terry Pratchett

34. We practically always excuse things when we understand them — Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time

35. 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. — Percy Jackson

36. No Tyson, the guy in the story did not attract the attention of a moose. Tyson is sad now. — Rick Riordan, Percy Jackson’s Greek Heroes

37. To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order To oneself. — Simone Weil

38. Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him. — Tupac Shakur

39. My belt holds up my pants and my pants have belt loops that hold up the belt. What the fuck’s really going on down there? Who is the real hero? — Mitch Hedberg

40. It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil. — Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind the Lord of the Rings

41. I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. — Roger Federer

42. It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment ‘The earth is enjoyed by heroes — This Is The Unfailing Truth.

43. Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow! — Teresa Toten, The Unlikely Hero of Room 13B

44. Mankind’s common instinct for reality has always held the world to be essentially a theatre for heroism. — William James

45. A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism. — Victor Hugo

46. I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete’s record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him. — Roger Federer

47. It creates a truth, some of my biggest heroes were in silent film. — Tom Petty

48. We are here because the world needs heroes. — Robert J. Braathe

49. We choose and make our heroes from what we have read, heard and believed in. — Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel

50. There’s a thine line between being a hero and being a memory. — Optimus Prime

Conclusion

We hope this list of quotes about heroes has inspired you to be the best version of yourself and to strive to be a hero to those around you. Heroes come in many forms, and it’s up to us to recognize them, thank them, and strive to be the best example we can be.