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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• 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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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Badass, Hipster

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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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• When the first Superman movie came out I was frequently asked "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 strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

  Christopher Reeve

  Adversity, Thinking, Definitions

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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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• A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Heroism, World, Heroic

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Motivational, Military

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

  Tecumseh

  Death, Song, Home

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• The heroic cannot be the common,
  nor the common the heroic.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Common, Reconcile, Heroism

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

  Bernard Malamud

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Running, Courage, Long

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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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• Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

  Peter Kreeft

  Nice, Heart, People

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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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• When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Success, Positive Thinking

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Sacrifice, Self, Age

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• I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim.

  Lynn Flewelling

  Book, Character, Gay

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• He who gives back at the first repulse and without striking the second blow, despairs of success has never been, is not, and never will be a hero in war, love, or business.

  Frederic Tudor

  War, Blow, Giving

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• Heroes don't get anything but dead.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

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