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

Benjamin Disraeli

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

Bob Dylan

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

Randy K. Milholland

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

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

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

Warren G. Harding

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Louis Pasteur

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

Bertolt Brecht

The entrepreneurial heroes of the Valley are accessible to many people.

Sabeer Bhatia

Greg Howard was one of the heroes on the men's side.

Janusz Bednarski

Now is the time to honor heroes on two and four legs.

Scott Shields

NASCAR drivers are heroes. The books' appeal is that you can put yourself in the heroines' shoes.

Pamela Britton

We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.

Tom Robbins

The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.

Robert Brustein

I saw some war heroes ... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

John O'neill

Poets and heroes are of the same race, the latter do what the former conceive.

Alphonse De Lamartine

Without heroes, we are all plain people, and don't know how far we can go.

Bernard Malamud

We can be Heroes, Just for one day.

David Bowie

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Nina Simone

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

Maya Angelou

Damned good programme, Hogan's Heroes.

Paul Holmes

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

John Gay

My whole life has been comics, and this store has really been my dream all of my life. Because of it, I've gotten to meet all of my heroes.

John Hitchcock

They are great — our local heroes.

Capt. Premek Kramerius

These are neither heroes nor martyrs nor saints.

Cheryl Keen

It takes a special person to be a volunteer firefighter. They have hearts as big as buckets. They are heroes.

Ronnie Day

We are fully aware of Capt. Atkins' exploits and he certainly is a Navy hero, ... And he is one of many Navy heroes who would be considered in the future naming of ships.

Jack Green

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

Bob Riley

Clearly, we are going to start reaching out all over the country for money now, ... one of my absolute heroes.

Jack Kemp

They're heroes, not criminals, ... Somebody ought to be giving them medals.

James Cobb

Evidence and reason: my heroes and my guides.

Naomi Weisstein

Up until September 11, we did live in an antiheroic age, ... Heroes were there to be debunked, criticized, made human, brought down to earth.

David Blankenhorn

Villains are very, very boring to do. They're so much easier than heroes.

Jeremy Brett

I love milk so much! I make a point of drinking a glass of milk every day. So now anyone who did those milk ads with the milk moustaches, they're my heroes.

Natalie Portman

I don't know if anybody believed but us. We did enough tonight. We're heroes, all of us.

Marcus Washington

They are people who feel devalued, despised and by becoming terrorists they suddenly become supermen, heroes.

Olivier Roy

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

Adam Baldwin

It was flattering, but scary. How could she have no other heroes?

Matt Jordan

They were all buried in different graves and now they're together with their buddies. They're my heroes.

Cliff Reed

We have heroes in the community young and old. In this case our hero is six years old.

Mayor Kenneth Boswell

He had always been one of my heroes.

Robert Watson

There are many, many heroes that have come out this. People talking about what I did. I didn't do nothing. Everybody did something.

Charles Neville

Sometimes, terrorists are even considered as heroes.

Ansyaad Mbai

Rescues; The Lives of Heroes.

Michael Lesy

It's a frightening feeling. We had some wonderful firefighters that helped. They put their lives on the line every day and we appreciate it. They're heroes every day.

Gail Pomerleau

Too many of our brave men and women, our heroes, are falling through the cracks.

Marty Meehan

The real heroes were my good buddies who died during the battles.

Ira Hayes

Organ donors are the real heroes. I'm here today because of one. I'm forever grateful, forever humbled by that.

Chris Klug

The selection of the final design moves us one step closer to memorializing this extraordinary group of heroes.

Hamilton Peterson

It really establishes the fact that there were no one or two heroes on Flight 93. There were 40 people, and I think each contributed what they could contribute that day. And because of that, they are all heroes.

Gordon Felt

They're the heroes in this.

Rep. David Babson

This isn't representative of our department. We had a lot of heroes that stepped up after the storm.

Warren Riley

Nurses are my heroes... We dealt with a lot of oncology nurses... They are unsung and underpaid.

Marcia Wallace

There wasn't a great living athlete or legend who wasn't on the show. I met every one of my heroes.

Dick Enberg

To me, those are the heroes of the story. It was government that failed. It was people who stood up.

Anderson Cooper

They are the real heroes.

Lee Woodland

All three have been unsung heroes.

Geoffrey Korper

Our young people have few Chicano heroes. That's one of the reasons that I did this documentary.

Dan Guerrero

We all had our heroes. If we've jumped into that position for somebody wanting to be an artist, we'll take it.

Gary Levox

Many of these corporations are really unsung heroes in the communities they serve.

Robert Mcclure

Our heroes are those... who... act above and beyond the call of duty and in so doing give definition to patriotism and elevate all of us.... America is the land of the free because we are the home of the brave.

David Mahoney

Thank you for that very very good picture but you know heroes only thrive when they are dead.

Commissioner Resureccion Borra

Dr. King was one of my heroes. The method of nonviolence is what I admired about him most of all.

John M. Capozzi

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Susanne Curchod Necker

These young men and ladies here are my heroes. We welcome them here always.

Richard Hunt

It was good to see kids that normally aren't the heroes come through.

Harvey Starbuck

What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.

Sarah Orne Jewett

If you call people heroes, the message is that we can't do what they've done. I want to make everyone aware that you and I can do exactly what they've done.

Jeff Steinberg

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

Brian Moore

I'm kind of hooked to the game of art and literature; my heroes are artists and writers.

Jim Morrison

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.

Peter S. Beagle

You've got unsung heroes in that school.

Lawrence Awe

We will never forget the passengers of Flight 93, who courageously confronted the terrorists, defeating another planned attack on America. They are the heroes for our times.

Bob Taft

They've always been recognized as the heroes going into the flaming building and pulling people out.

Steve Henderson

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

Wayne Allard

He's one of my heroes. He's one of the best coaches ever, I think. I'd rather have him than any coach in the country.

Jeremy Johnson

She got clear maybe 10 or 15 seconds before the train hit her car. Those civilians are heroes.

Pete Gray

Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.

Norman Thomas

The only thing we can say definitively is that the passengers aboard that flight were heroes.

Susan Whitson

I think our ski patrol, I think they're heroes ... getting there as fast as they did absolutely saved her.

Pam Murphy

Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.

Ellis Peters

He was one of the unsung heroes, who was misunderstood.

Fred Williams

Treat them like heroes. They saw things and met people [in conditions] you couldn't imagine.

Everitt Binns