Hero Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Memorial Day, Courage, Army

  "Worth Repeating: More Than 5,000 Classic and Contemporary Quotes" by Bob Kelly, p. 169, 2003.

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  It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

  Norman Schwarzkopf

  Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

  Oliver North

  Sports, Athlete, People

  "True Heroes Place Themselves at Risk for Benefit of Others Oliver North" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. February 16, 2007.

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• Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, People, Occasions

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

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• A working class hero is something to be.

  John Lennon

  Class, Labor, Working Class

  "Working Class Hero" (song) (1970)

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• There's a hero, If you look inside your heart

  Mariah Carey

  Heart, Looks, Ifs

  Song: Hero, Album: Music Box, 1993

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• Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Circumstances, Conqueror, Battlefields

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• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Acting, Actors

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• Live your life like you're the hero in your movie and right now.

  Joe Rogan

  Live Your Life, Like You

  "Joe Rogan – Adam Carolla – Duncan Trussell – Life And Overcoming Depression". lybio.net.

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• Like a hero in a dream, Christ came and He rescued me.

  LeCrae

  Dream, Christ

  Song: Tell the World, Album: Gravity, 2012

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• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Giving Up, People, Ego

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• Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Ordinary

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• We all need to have heroes, people to admire and look up to. To find a hero, first look to your parents or older brother or sister. Then look to the people who share the same morals and values that you have, and have accomplished the goals that you strive to achieve.

  Robert Cheeke

  Motivational, Brother, Bodybuilding

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• A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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• If I were fierce, and bald, and short of breath,I'd live with scarlet Majors at the Base,And speed glum heroes up the line of death.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Lines, Fierce, Speed

  'Base Details' (1918)

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• The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

  Rumi

  Military, Enemy, Overcoming

  "Rumi Daylight: A Daybook of Spiritual Guidance". Book by Rumi, translated by Camille Adams Helminsk and Kabir Helminski, 1990.

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• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defeat, Hours, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Heroic, Behavior, Lost

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.1465, Random House

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• Now I’m floating like a butterfly
  Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes
  I went from zero, to my own hero

  Katy Perry

  Zero, Butterfly, Stripes

  Song: Roar

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• What's important at this time is to re-clarify the difference between hero and villain.

  J. Edgar Hoover

  Differences, Important, Villain

  "Fictional character: J. Edgar Hoover". "J. Edgar", www.imdb.com. 2011.

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• Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

  Winston Churchill

  Fighting, Greek

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• If I was white I would have been like John Wayne... I feel like a tragic hero in a Shakespeare play

  Tupac Shakur

  Play, White, Wayne

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• The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Names, Perfection

  Thomas Carlyle (1846). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported, with Emendations and Additions”, p.10

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• The achievement of the hero is one that he is ready for and it's really a manifestation of his character. It's amusing the way in which the landscape and conditions of the environment match the readiness of the hero. The adventure that he is ready for is the one that he gets.

  Joseph Campbell

  Character, Adventure, Achievement

  "Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth (The Hero's Adventure)". TV Mini-Series, June 21, 1988.

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Generosity, Trying

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2010). “Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Five Foot Shelf of Classics, Vol. V (in 51 Volumes)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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