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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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"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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"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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"Forget decorated generals, tell me about Private Ryan."
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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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"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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"A hero can go anywhere, challenge anyone, as long as he has the nerve."
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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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"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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"To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something, to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little."
4
"I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth."
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"There will never be complete satisfaction in the life, satisfaction is an illusion, there is only heroism."
4
"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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"Custer had dead heroes. Crazy Horse had only live ones."
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"Heroic ambition seemed to have been the cause of much of the world's pain then - quite like it is now. No villain ever saw himself a villain: he only saw himself a hero, and this goes just as no hero ever saw himself a hero: he simply did what he had to do. No true hero initially sets out with intentions of being deemed a hero."
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"Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship."
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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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"Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes."
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"Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity."
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"He thought of that heroic Colonel Pontmercy . . . who had left upon every field of victory in Europe drops of that same blood which he, Marius, had in his veins, who had grown grey before his time in discipline and in command, who had lived with his sword-belt buckled, his epaulets falling on his breast, his cockade blackened by powder, his forehead wrinkled by the cap, in the barracks, in the camp, in the bivouac, in the ambulance, and who after twenty years had returned from the great wars with his cheek scarred, his face smiling, simple, tranquil, admirable, pure as a child, having done everything for France and nothing against her."
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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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"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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"It was just the thrill of a lifetime. Brando and Hackman were two of my heroes."
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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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"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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"Heroes don't have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done."
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