Real Heroes Quotes

• Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they've stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

  Kevin Costner

  Memorial Day, Real, Fall

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

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• No hero is a hero if he ever killed someone! Only the man who has not any blood in his hand can be a real hero! The honour of being a hero belongs exclusively to the peaceful people!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Real, Hero, Men

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• The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Real, Moving, Hero

  Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.106, Penguin

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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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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

  Umberto Eco

  Real, Mistake, Hero

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

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

  John Green

  Inspirational, Real, Hero

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them.

  Jean Genet

  Success, Congratulations, Hero

  Jean Genet (2003). “Prisoner of Love”, New York Review of Books

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• Anyone can slay a dragon, he told me, but try waking up every morning and loving the world all over again. That's what takes a real hero.

  Brian Andreas

  Morning, Real, Hero

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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, Hero, Heart

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• Every man is scared in his first battle. If he says he's not, he's a liar. Some men are cowards but they fight the same as the brave men or they get the hell slammed out of them watching
  men fight who are just as scared as they are. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

  George S. Patton

  Real, Liars, Hero

  Speech to the Third Army on June 05, 1944. "The Unknown Patton". Book by Charles M. Province, p. 32, www.pattonhq.com. 1983.

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• The real hero must fail in order to succeed.

  William C. Brown

  Art, Real, Hero

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• Kids today are looking for idols, but sometimes they look too far ... They don't have to look any farther than their home because those are the people that love you. They are the real heroes.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Real, Love You

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• The characters in my films try to live honestly and make the most of the lives they've been given. I believe you must live honestly and develop your abilities to the full. People who do this are the real heroes.

  Akira Kurosawa

  Real, Believe, Hero

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

  Mao Zedong

  Real, Hero, Past

  "Qinyuanchun (Snow)". Poem by Mao Zedong, 1945.

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• When I was told they wanted the show to be about doctors, I was a bit reluctant to sign on, you know? I thought, why have a show about doctors when we could have a show about the real heroes, you know, like me?

  Zach Braff

  Real, Hero, Doctors

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• Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

  Wayne Allard

  Real, Hero, Men

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• Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Percy Jackson protecting them from the manticore. Percy's sword gleamed in the dark. He'd been the first demigod Nico had ever seen in action. Later at Camp Half-Blood, Percy took Nico by the arm, promising to keep his sister Bianca safe. Nico believed him. Nico looked into his sea-green eyes and though, How can he possibly fail? This is a real hero.

  Rick Riordan

  Real, Hero, Eye

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• The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

  Ira Hayes

  Real, Hero, Firefighter

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• The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox.

  John Green

  Real, Hero, Vaccines

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.177, Penguin

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• They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

  Neal Shusterman

  Real, Hero, Heart

  Neal Shusterman (2012). “Full Tilt”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm not a legend or a hero, I don't slay dragons, I don't do any of the things that a real hero can. But I can make things better, one day at a time, for most of the kingdom.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Real, Hero, Dragons

  Mercedes Lackey (2008). “Fortune's Fool”, p.151, LUNA

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• Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Real, Believe, Hero

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “God Bless You, Mr Rosewater”, p.142, Random House

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• I think the media has become incredibly corrupt. We used to have a profound tradition of investigative journalism in the United States. Some journalists were real heroes, such as Bob Woodward who helped uncover the Watergate scandal. But today he is leading the opposite charge, trying to bring down the careers of people and score easy victories. In other words, those who used to bust the status quo have now become the status quo.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Hero, Thinking

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• I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.

  Nathan Gamble

  Real, Hero, Hard Work

  "A Conversation with Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble of 'Dolphin Tale'". Interview with Paula K. Parker, www.catholic.org. September 20, 2011.

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• No. The real heroes wear camo. I'm not one of them.

  T. J. Oshie

  Real, Hero, Camo

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