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Quotations by Subject: Heroes
(Related Subjects: Courage)
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The whole point in bein' a hero is to do somethin' greater than yerself. It'd be easy to do it for the glory or the girls. We're bigger men than that.: Alexander Woo, True Blood, Beyond Here Lies Nothing, 2009
Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes.: Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.: Bette Davis (1908 - 1989), The Lonely Life, 1962
I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.: Bob Dylan (1941 - )
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.: John Barth (1930 - )
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Every hero becomes a bore at last.: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love.: Randy K. Milholland, Midnight Macabre, 09-27-07
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.: Umberto Eco (1932 - ), Travels in Hyperreality
America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.: Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), Newspaper article, Feb. 15, 1925
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.: Will Rogers (1879 - 1935)


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