1,474 Quotes About Hero




  • Author Henry Ward Beecher
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    Do not be troubled because you have not great virtues. God made a million spears of grass where He made one tree. The earth is fringed and carpeted, not with forests, but with grasses. Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero or a saint.

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  • Author Jacques Barzun
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    Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

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  • Author James Belushi
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    Heroes aren't born, they' re cornered. Oh, I was cornered. And I found out that I was no hero.

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  • Author James Boswell
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    Boswell, when he speaks of his Life of Johnson, calls it my magnum opus, but it may more properly be called his opera, for it is truly a composition founded on a true story, in which there is a hero with a number of subordinate characters, and an alternate succession of recitative and airs of various tone and effect, all however in delightful animation.

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  • Author James Blunt
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    I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won.

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  • Author Jan de Bont
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    We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

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