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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Courage, Veterans Day

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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

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

  Maya Angelou

  Veterans Day, Memorial Day, Women

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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

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• The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

  Umberto Eco

  Real, Mistake, Cowardice

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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, Parent

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• I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Giving, Vision

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

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

  Novalis

  Memorial Day, Overcoming Addiction, Literature

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

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, People, Occasions

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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

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• You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

  Tony Robbins

  Fear, Want, Faces

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• Sing your death song and die like a hero going home.

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Home

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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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• The great will not condescend to take anything seriously.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

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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

  Courage, Memorial Day, Army

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• If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Autism, Underdog, Disability

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• The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Class, Criminals, Worship

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• Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

  Ken Kesey

  Men, Saint, Add

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• We don't need heroes so much as recognizing ourselves as heroes.

  Joss Whedon

  Needs, Recognizing

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• The hero is the person who's afraid to run away.

  Saul Williams

  Running, Running Away, Persons

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• Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

  Will Rogers

  Life, Sports, Earth

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