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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Strength, Being Strong, Running

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.41, Westminster John Knox Press

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Inspirational, Motivational, Friendship

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

  Jack Dempsey

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Men, Divine

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “On Heroes, Hero-worship and the Heroic in History”, p.4

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• What is a hero without love for mankind.

  Doris Lessing

  Love, Mankind, Heroic

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• Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Writing, Tragedy

  The Crack-Up "Note-Books" (1945)

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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 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, Boys

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

  Novalis

  Motivational, Memorial Day, Overcoming Addiction

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• Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

  George F. Kennan

  Marine, Endurance, Usmc

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