{"id":1332,"date":"2016-05-13T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2016-05-13T09:38:55","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T14:38:55","slug":"Famous_Quotes_about_Heroes_and_Heroism_82_Quotations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=1332","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes about Heroes and Heroism (82 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.<\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Edgar Watson Howe<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A hero is a man who is afraid to run away.<\/div>\n
English Proverb<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A hero is someone right who doesn't change.<\/div>\n
George Foreman<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.<\/div>\n
Kitty Kelley<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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A man can be a hero if he is a scientist, or a soldier, or a drug addict, or a disc jockey, or a crummy mediocre politician. A man can be a hero because he suffers and despairs; or because he thinks logically and analytically; or because he is ''sensitive;'' or because he is cruel. Wealth establishes a man as a hero, and so does poverty. Virtually any circumstance in a man's life will make him a hero to some group of people and has a mythic rendering in the culture — in literature, art, theater, or the daily newspapers.<\/div>\n
Andrea Dworkin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all. I am just like everybody else.<\/div>\n
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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And how can man die better than facing fearful odds, for the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his Gods?<\/div>\n
Thomas B. Macaulay<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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As a rule, all heroism is due to a lack of reflection, and thus it is necessary to maintain a mass of imbeciles. If they once understand themselves the ruling men will be lost.<\/div>\n
Ernest Renan<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.<\/div>\n
Baltasar Gracian<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.<\/div>\n
D. J. Enright<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Be your own hero, it's cheaper than a movie ticket.<\/div>\n
Doug Horton<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.<\/div>\n
Will Rogers<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Calculation never made a hero.<\/div>\n
John Henry Newman<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to totter for us in maturer life.<\/div>\n
George Eliot<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.<\/div>\n
Samuel Johnson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid… He is the hero, he is everything. He must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor, by instinct, by inevitability, without thought of it, and certainly without saying it. He must be the best man in his world and a good enough man for any world.<\/div>\n
Raymond Chandler<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.<\/div>\n
Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.<\/div>\n
John Barth<\/a><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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