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

Bob Dylan

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

G. K. Chesterton

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

H. Norman Schwarzkopf

A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.

Novalis

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

The Hero Factor are my good friends... They are the hottest act in Tulsa.

Rockwell Ripperger

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

Will Rogers

Who is the bravest hero? He who turns his enemy into a friend.

Hebrew Proverb

You could get $4 a share and look a hero, or you might get $2 and look silly.

Rickey Ward

It's been 17 months and she has not put a headstone on his grave, ... Why do I see the honor of this American hero, when it should be his own mom?

Deborah Johns

This is not my thing, this hero thing. This is just what anybody else would do. I'm just glad I was there.

Jack Russo

I don't view myself as people have described. I don't think of myself as a hero and certainly not as hidden.

Gerald Jones

Why be a hero in these markets?

Bob Semple

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better.

Dario Fo

There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Walt Whitman

A hero is someone right who doesn't change.

George Foreman

I see it as I was saving the little boy, not to be a hero or all that, because if it was anyone else, they would've done the same thing.

Simeo Smith

She was just awesome. She was just getting to the basket, setting up plays. ... She's my hero. I had to give her a hug after the game.

Fantasia Goodwin

He was a hero before that, ... He was so unselfish, someone who brought out the best in people. ... He made me a better person.

Frank Deangelis

To remain young one must change. The perpetual campus hero is not a young man but an old boy.

Alexander Chase

(Clark) does not have friends in Iraq, ... He's trying to be an international hero. But he will fall down doing so.

Ridha Jawad

He could have gone back to Saudi Arabia, but he's a madman, he wanted to prove that he's the hero.

Mustafa Mahmoud

It is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a coward.

Dolores Ibarruri (pasionaria)

My hero when I was a boy was Sammy Baugh, who was in the pros already, but he came from a little town near where I grew up.

Bob Lilly

I can be your hero baby . . . I can wash away your pain.

Brett Lee

The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler.

Mark Sullivan

He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.

Mario Puzo

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

Bob Riley

Calculation never made a hero.

John Henry Newman

If we get it, everybody would have been calling [Zook] a hero.

Steve Weatherford

Buffalo was my hero when I was growing up in Waikiki. It was kind of cool to be inducted with him into the Walk of Fame.

David Nuuhiwa

What really helps a guy to become an action hero today is the directing of the movie. All those fast cuts.

Jean claude Van Damme

A hero is one who does what he can. The others don't.

Romain Rolland

As I look out into the sea of everyone here, I see my brother. He is my hero. I admire him so much.

Bethany Parker

He really was the unsung hero.

Donnie Jones

He's a hero of ours. He's how we want to be.

Derek Loomis

What I have found, the sense of it is that this kid really was a hero.

Bill Newman

No man is a hero to his wife's psychiatrist.

Eric Berne

Dale Earnhardt was my hero and when he died I started liking his son.

David White

I didn't have to look very far to see a hero.

Jerry Williams

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

Simone Weil

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He died a hero.

Franco Frattini

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

He'd always been our hero.

William Shea

Good guy' or 'bad guy', hero or anti hero; doesn't matter to me, what role I play, only the character have something magical.

Rutger Hauer

You're a hero. I'm sorry, I just can't stop crying.

Susan Richardson

John is the hero. He did a great job. Now Rose admits John was correct.

Fay Vincent

I think she's a total hero.

Sherryl Broverman

I am the hero of Africa.

Idi Amin Dada

Maybe some action hero might think it would hurt his career.

William H. Macy

The strikebreaker is the hero of American industry.

Charles W. Eliot

Probably we'll think of Bush in years to come as an American hero.

Tommy Franks

Each one was a hero. Their contribution to science and space exploration will never be forgotten.

Jean Chretien

One brave deed makes no hero.

John Greenleaf Whittier

My dad was my hero, ... Whatever he did, I did.

Chip Foose

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

Mayor Kenneth Boswell

He's a pretty inspirational kid -- he's kind of becoming my hero.

John Padilla

We want to make sure they can't do this at the funeral of a hero.

Marilyn Miller

He was an inspiration, to say the least, ... For all of us. ... He was our hero in a lot of ways.

David Allen

When I got into it I realized that it needed Jake Grafton to give it an American center of focus that wouldn't be there without a strong American hero.

Stephen Coonts

A hero has faced it all: he need not be undefeated, but he must be undaunted.

Andrew Bernstein

I feel he should be honored as a hero. He was going to make a career out of the military. He wouldn't even tell us the danger he was in.

Carolyn Howard

He's a war hero, and we really wanted a hometown guy to be our parade marshal.

Ben Haines

We honor him as a fallen American hero. We are here to honor this young man, support his family and let them know we care.

Asha Lamy

Mr. President, ... this is a little boy whose 24-year-old mother was a hero that day.

Jim O'connor

We have a saying in our dialect: When a hero dies in the village, people cannot cry.

Rebecca Garang

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

Andrew Bernstein

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

John Barth

Today, we are welcoming a great hero of freedom.

Dana Rohrabacher

The world needs another living hero.

Nancy Lewis

He was a good, all-around American boy. And he's a fallen hero.

Fred Byrd

My father has been extremely supportive of my music. I would classify him as my hero. If it was not for him, there is no way I would be where I am.

J. Loren Wince

You know he's my hero, and I think he must be your hero, too.

Barbara Lewis

He is absolutely our hero. He always has been and he always will be. He died doing something he strongly believed so strongly in.

Deirdre Ostlund

He veered from hero to villain -- and both were untrue.

David Margolick

I think of this man as a hero.

Randy Redd

The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive.

Joseph Campbell

James has always been a guitar hero, ... And I've always felt he was a little ahead of his time.

Jeff Cook

A hero is a man who does what he can.

Romain Rolland

Terry Fox was a hero to me when I was growing up.

Jason Cooper

That was one of the saddest moments of my life when I carried him out. Carlos was a hero, my mentor and a friend.

Kevin Barrett

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

Umberto Eco

Dan King is my hero.

Chris Eyre

They sort of became hero responders. We are very grateful for that.

Jim Beasley

Toughest person I've ever met in my life my hero, my soldier.

Jim Kelly

He's my hero. To see him pitch, I couldn't believe it.

Jared Elario

I think their running attack is the unsung hero of their offense.

Oscar Lua

If you do it right 51 percent of the time you will end up a hero.

Alfred P. Sloan

There's no question that he was a hero of the first order.

Chris Good

He's the best. He's the man. He's my son's hero.

David Spears

I understand the hero (of Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms) keeps getting in bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way.

Harold Ross

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kitty Kelley

(Peters) is, without a doubt, a hero in the eyes of my family.

Patrick Corbett

The hero is the man dedicated to the creation and / or defense of reality-conforming, life-promoting values.

Andrew Bernstein

It's an honor fighting on his birthday, because of what he did for my idol, my hero, Joe Louis.

Lamon Brewster

If he had retired last year he would have done so as the complete hero, the dominant person.

Jackie Stewart

You're a bit of a hero.

Frank Skinner

A man who kills on his own is a murderer. A man who kills at his government's request is a national hero.

Ramman Kenoun

Settle entered in a really tough spot. Closer is a tough job; you're either the hero or the goat, no in-between. He did a good job in that situation.

Joe Hudak

I'll be using this lecture as an example of community service. You don't have to go to the Gulf Coast to be a hero.

Raymond Frey

I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.

Ira Hayes

They're either the hero or the bum. There's no in-between.

Christy Grady

Bear: Heart of a Hero.

Scott Shields

Secretary-General Takebe and others were in a frenzy to make him a hero.

Satsuki Eda

Pat was a real hero, not what they used him as.

Mary Tillman

I'm no hero. I would have done the same thing for anyone. I told him that if it had happened the next day I wouldn't have been there.

Becky Chittom

He soon grew up seeing him be a hero, ... He wanted to be just like his dad. A hero.

Jose Diaz

But he got away. He's a hero. He should be back here with us, too.

Anna Ayala

I think he is truly a hero.

Jill Johnson

A hero is not someone who does something courageous when he has nothing to lose and something to gain, but rather, he is the one who acts well when he has nothing to gain and everything to lose.

Arthur Forman

Any Christian who is not a hero is a pig.

Leon Bloy

Libertarians and conservatives do regard him as a hero. He's going to be a very influential figure moving forward in Canada, in the US, and abroad.

Michael Cannon

He was a hero. But I can't let my family go through this again.

Pablo Gomez

When he says he loves you, it's genuine. He's a man of character. He's genuine. He's my hero.

Major Parker

She was a pivotal moment. She was a hero.

Anne Cruikshanks

I don't want this to seem like I was a hero, because I wasn't.

Dave Marmon

She certainly put others before herself and to me that is a hero.

Scott Davis

I've got a real hero, and that's Pat Collins. I thank God for Pat Collins and the job that he did, his character and the team of prosecutors.

Scott Willis

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

George Moore

They decide they're going to come up here and be a hero.

Carl Voigtlander

He is a silent hero.

David Gore

You don't have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things – to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated.

Edmund Hillary