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

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

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

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Inspiring, Veterans Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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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

  Norman Schwarzkopf (2010). “It Doesn't Take a Hero: The Autobiography of General Norman Schwarzkopf”, p.13, Bantam

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• A true hero is not someone who thinks about doing what is right, but one that simply does what is right without thinking!

  Kevin Heath

  Thinking, Doe, True Hero

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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, Army

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

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

  Tom Brokaw

  Life, People, Occasions

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

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• Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Defeat, Hours, Made

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

  David Gemmell

  Fear, Coward, Shame

  David Gemmell (2009). “Dark Moon”, p.342, Random House

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

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Memorial Day, Patriotic, Men

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

  Tony Robbins

  Fear, Want, Faces

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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 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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  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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• He who angers you conquers you.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Inspirational, Life, Anger

  "Fictional character: Arturo". "Public Art", www.imdb.com. 2017.

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