Quotes of Heroes - somelinesforyou

“ 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

“ Nurture your mind with great thoughts; to believe in the heroic makes heroes. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ 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

“ I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. ”

- John Barth

“ A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Every hero becomes a bore at last. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Our heroes are people and people are flawed. Don't let that taint the thing you love. ”

- Randy K. Milholland

“ The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else. ”

- Umberto Eco

“ America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration. ”

- Warren G. Harding

“ Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is. ”

- Will Rogers

“ We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. ”

- Will Rogers
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