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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
Edward W. Howe
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.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
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
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.
May Sarton
There are heroes in evil as well as in good.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
John Barth
Heroes are created by popular demand, sometimes out of the scantiest materials.
Gerald W. Johnson
Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
D. J. Enright
It's true that heroes are inspiring, but mustn't they also do some rescuing if they are to be worthy of their name? Would Wonder Woman matter if she only sent commiserating telegrams to the distressed?
Jeanette Winterson
No heroine can create a hero through love of one, but she can give birth to one.
Jean Paul
More than any time in recent history, America's destiny is not of our own choosing. We did not seek nor did we provoke an assault on our freedom and our way of life. We did not expect nor did we invite a confrontation with evil. Yet the true measure of a people's strength is how they rise to master that moment when it does arive...The streets of heaven are too crowded with angels, but every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we're reminded that that capacity may well be limitless. This is a time for American heroes. We will do what is hard. We will achieve what is great. This is a time for American heroes and we reach for the stars...
Aaron Sorkin, West Wing (20 Hour
The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
Johann von Goethe
It is said, that no one is a hero to their butler. The reason is, that it requires a hero to recognize a hero. The butler, however, will probably know well how to estimate his equals.
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
Henry Miller
Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy --common clay, if you like --eating, breeding, working, counting their pennies; people who just live; ordinary people; people you can't imagine dead. And then there are the others --the noble ones, the heroes. The ones you can quite well imagine lying shot, pale and tragic; one minute triumphant with a guard of honor, and the next being marched away between two gendarmes.
Jean Anouilh
You lived too long, we have supped full with heroes, they waste their deaths on us.
C. D. Andrews
