My Hero Quotes

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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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• My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.

  Michael Jordan

  Basketball, Sports, Hero

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

  John Barth

  Sports, Hero, Stories

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

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• We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem." Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Responsibility

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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• The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspiring, Sports, Memorial Day

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• A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Running, Hero, Men

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• 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, Hero

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

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• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Mothers Day, Mom

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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 a man wishes to become a hero, then the serpent must first become a dragon: otherwise he lacks his proper enemy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Hero, Men, Dragons

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• Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps

  Chuck D

  Hero, Stamps

  Chuck D, Yusuf Jah (2007). “Chuck D: Lyrics of a Rap Revolutionary”, Y & G Communications

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• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Motivational, Family, Mothers Day

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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, Hero

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• A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.

  Sophia Loren

  Mom, Mother, Children

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

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• I literally wouldn't have dreamed of it in a million years that I'm going to be standing there with George (Strait) and Garth and Kenny (Chesney) and Reba (McEntire) and Brooks & Dunn. I don't really have any clue what I'm actually doing with those people because I feel like I'm still just getting started and I've seen them all in concert and they're all my heroes.

  Miranda Lambert

  Hero, Years, People

  "Miranda Lambert: Women in Country Have to Stick Together". Associated Press Interview, gulfnews.com. April 18, 2015.

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• My heroes were all in the theatre.

  Damian Lewis

  Hero, Theatre

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• I feel like an old lady; my hero is Miss Marple.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Hero, Missing, Old Lady

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  Anybody who can step out of the house with a pair of heels and some lipstick on their lips is my hero.

  RuPaul

  Hero, House, Pairs

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• My parents were my heroes and my role models. So I thought long and hard over decisions that I would make because I never wanted to disappoint them and break their hearts.

  Dick Vitale

  Hero, Heart, Long

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• PSH - I am genuinely shocked, saddened and speechless. A truly wonderful man, with a magical touch. My hero. Thoughts are with his family

  Sam Claflin

  Hero, Men, Wonderful

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2014

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• Nature I believe in. True art aims to, represent men and women, not as my little self would have them, but as they appear. My heroes and heroines I want not extreme types, all good or all bad; but human, mortal--partly good, partly bad. Realism I need. Pure mental abstractions have no significance for me.

  Ouida

  Art, Hero, Believe

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• My mother is my hero just because, what life becomes about is overcoming adversity, and I watched her overcome so many things in life but still able to smile. See it's one thing to overcome adversity and to be scarred and to carry that with you but when you have somebody overcomes adversity and they're still able to smile that's something else. That's true strength.

  Rashad Evans

  Mother, Hero, Adversity

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• My hero is Michelle Williams, who I grew close to when we did 'Meek's Cutoff.' She's an extraordinary actor and mom.

  Zoe Kazan

  Mom, Hero, Actors

  "Need to Meet: Zoe Kazan". Interview with Thelma Adams, www.marieclaire.com. February 11, 2010.

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• Neil Young is my hero, and such a great example. You know what that guy has been doing for the past 40 years? Making music. That's what that guy does. Sometimes you pay attention, sometimes you don't. Sometimes he hands it to you, sometimes he keeps it to himself. He's a good man with a beautiful family and wonderful life.

  Dave Grohl

  Beautiful, Hero, Past

  Interview with Kyle Ryan, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2006.

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