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• I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

  Bob Dylan

  Courage, Freedom, Responsibility

  Interview published with the "Biograph" album set, 1985.

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• Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

  John Barth

  Sports, Stories, Life Story

  "How to Seek Heroism in Demands" by Grande Lum, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 10, 2009.

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• Self trust is the essence of heroism.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Confidence, Running, Wisdom

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.63, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Calculation never made a hero.

  John Henry Newman

  Made, Calculations

  John Henry Newman (1846). “An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine”, p.329

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• The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Firefighter, Fireman

  Henry David Thoreau, Robert Lawrence France, Thoreau Society (2001). “Thoreau on Water: Reflecting Heaven”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Veterans Day, Courage

  "Celebrating Our She-roes" by Jill S. Tietjen, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2014.

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• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Sports, Challenges

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• When the first Superman movie came out, I gave dozens of interviews to promote it. The most frequent question was: What is a hero? My answer was that a hero is someone who commits a courageous action without considering the consequences. Now my definition is completely different. I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Adversity, Thinking, Different

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

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  My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Bono

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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• Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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• Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

  Bernard Malamud

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Bernard Malamud (2003). “The Natural: A Novel”, p.148, Macmillan

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• A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too.

  Helen Hayes

  Sports, News, Forget

  Helen Hayes, Marion Glasserow Gladney (1986). “Our Best Years”, Doubleday Books

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• I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Thinking, Verbs, Nouns

  "The Complete Robert Downey Jr". Interview with Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. April 16, 2012.

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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 is my responsibility to make it better. Interweave all these communities and you really have an America that is back on its feet again. I really think we are gonna have to reassess what constitutes a 'hero'.

  Studs Terkel

  Responsibility, Thinking, Sky

  Studs Terkel (1980). “American Dreams: Lost and Found”, p.337, The New Press

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• Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

  George F. Kennan

  Marine, Endurance, Usmc

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• A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

  Novalis

  Motivational, Memorial Day, Overcoming Addiction

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• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Life, Positive, Veterans Day

  Benjamin Disraeli (1844). “Coningsby: Or, The New Generation”, p.111, London : H. Colburn

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• We can't all be heroes, because somebody has to sit on the curb and applaud when they go by.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Motivational, Firefighter

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  E. W. Howe

  War, Food, Boys

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

  Umberto Eco

  Sports, Dream, Real

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is a hero without love for mankind.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Mankind, Heroic

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• The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Justice, Soul, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Adam Starchild (2002). “Character and Heroism”, p.69, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

  Umberto Eco

  Real, Mistake, Cowardice

  Umberto Eco (2014). “Travels in Hyperreality”, p.133, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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