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Quotes about heroes and heroism
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The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die. (Attenborough Richard)
Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards. (Attenborough Richard)
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? (Attenborough Richard)
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One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. (Attenborough Richard)
Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale. (Attenborough Richard)
If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor. (Attenborough Richard)
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. (Attenborough Richard)
The more characteristic American hero in the earlier day, and the more beloved type at all times, was not the hustler but the whittler. (Attenborough Richard)
What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair. (Attenborough Richard)
The great destroyers of nations and men are comfort, plenty and security. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on. (Attenborough Richard)
A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. (Attenborough Richard)
Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy. (Attenborough Richard)
One brave deed makes no hero. (Attenborough Richard)
My favorite superhero was this old Japanese black and white live action show that very few people remember, but lots of people remember Ultra Man. It was Ultra Man. It was the one that came on before that. It was John Sokko and his giant robot. (Attenborough Richard)
A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. (Attenborough Richard)
People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don't want heroes; what they want is to see you fall (Attenborough Richard)
I'm not interested in playing a superhero, but I'm glad that they're making those movies, just because they lighten things up a little. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroes are generally the leading men, and generally a story is written around the leading man or the leading woman. (Attenborough Richard)
Yes, probably, and the conventions that I went to in those early years were filled with passionate fans who would assume the persona of their various heroes. (Attenborough Richard)
Heroes to me are guys that sit in libraries. They absorb knowledge and then the risks they take are calculated on the basis of the courage it took to become replete with knowledge. (Attenborough Richard)
Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame. (Attenborough Richard)
Most original viewers of the Mickey Mouse Club didn't face the crush of family and social problems children have today. (Attenborough Richard)
Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are. (Attenborough Richard)
“The real heroes are the ones working at the shelters every day and the women who find the courage to better their lives for themselves and their children. The woman working at the shelter doesn't have the opportunity to get in front of a million people and raise awareness. I'm the one that can do that for her.” (Attenborough Richard)
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