A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.
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.
When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
My heroes are and were my parents. I can't see having anyone else as my heroes.
How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
A mother has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child.
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.
A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.
My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.
My heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place - police, firefighters and members of our armed forces.
My Daddy was my hero. He was always there for me when I needed him. He listened to me and taught me so many things. But most of all he was fun.
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
You know who it is? It's me in 10 years. So I turned 25. Ten years later, that same person comes to me and says, 'So, are you a hero?' And I was like, 'not even close. No, no, no.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'Because my hero's me at 35.' So you see every day, every week, every month and every year of my life, my hero's always 10 years away. I'm never gonna be my hero. I'm not gonna attain that. I know I'm not, and that's just fine with me because that keeps me with somebody to keep on chasing.
When I was a kid, I wanted to walk with my dad's limp - my dad was my hero - but that infuriated him, and he would make me walk back and forth in the living room until I walked without it.
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