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Heroism Quotes
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
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"Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed."
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"Kaltain unleashed the last of her shadowfire, tipping her face to the ceiling, toward a sky she'd never see again. She took every wall and every column. As she brought it all crashing and crumbling around them, Kaltain smiled, and at last burned herself into ash on a phantom wind."
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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."
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"Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan."
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"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
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"See, heroes never die. John Wayne isn't dead, Elvis isn't dead. Otherwise you don't have a hero. You can't kill a hero. That's why I never let him get older."
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"To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self."
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"Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions."
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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves."
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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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"My heroes were Dylan, John Lennon and Picasso, because they each moved their particular medium forward, and when they got to the point where they were comfortable, they always moved on."
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"You will never become a hero if you keep waiting for someone else to bring a cape for you."
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"We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol."
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"Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one."
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"King Arthur was one of my heroes - I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle's cane for the sword Excalibur."
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"It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes."
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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
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"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement."
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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
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"There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism."
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"A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve."
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"Stretch yourself a bit to know the difference between humans and heroes."
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"Heroism is endurance for one moment more."
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"I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing."
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"Everybody knows about Pearl Harbor. The thing that really fascinated me is that through this tragedy there was this amazing American heroism."
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"As a general man I tried watching movies, playing sports, going to picnics and other entertainments but I still got bored, then I tried heroism and now I am hero, and I never get bored."
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"A hero is a person who, without a second thought, simply does the right thing because his conscience cannot live with any other choice."
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