Hero Quotes

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

  Christopher Reeve

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.

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• Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

  Carson McCullers

  Men, Giving, Effort

  Carson McCullers (2005). “The Mortgaged Heart: Selected Writings”, p.124, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Order

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

  Kevin Heath

  Thinking, Doe, True Hero

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• 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.

  R. J. Palacio

  Memories, Egyptian Pyramids, People

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.78, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• 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.

  Tom McCall

  Responsibility, Sky, People

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

  Fred Durst

  Hate, Hate Him, Underdog

  "Fred Durst promises 'brutal' new Limp Bizkit album", www.mtv.com. March 08, 2005.

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

  Phil Ochs

  Inspirational, Journey, People

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

  Bob Riley

  Strength, Hard Times, Martial Arts

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

  Garrison Wynn

  Opportunity, Coward, Action

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• 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.

  Terence Fisher

  Red, Lost, Patches

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• 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.

  J. D. Salinger

  War, Book, Writing

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• 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.

  Gertrude Stein

  War, Nice, Heroic

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.89, Random House

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• 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.

  Craig T. Nelson

  Guy, Done, Armstrong

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

  Chris Hemsworth

  Growing Up, Parent, Way

  "Chris Hemsworth, Tom Hiddleston and Anthony Hopkins Interview THOR". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 3, 2011.

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• 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.

  Tom Baker

  Children, Play, Two

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• 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.

  Nathan Fillion

  Real, Past, People

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

  Maxwell Caulfield

  Stars, Past, Rebel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• 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.

  Oscar Gutierrez

  Thinking, Wwe, Two

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

  Newton Lee

  War, Small Steps, Giants

  Newton Lee (2013). “Counterterrorism and Cybersecurity: Total Information Awareness”, p.208, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

  Gino Bartali

  Real, Heart, Soul

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

  Anita Baker

  Issues, Generations, Problem

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• 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.

  CM Punk

  Guitar, Wwe, Play

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

  James Marsters

  Mean, Saving, Succeed

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