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Great battles can make great heroes and heroines. -- Ezra Taft Benson
Literature throws us many great heroes. Real life invariably outdoes them. -- Wilbur Smith
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Fernando Garcia Lorca. -- Leonard Cohen
My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico Garcia Lorca. -- Leonard Cohen
All great heroes have a flaw. It's one of the things that makes them heroes. -- Jennifer McMahon
I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. -- Peter Eisenman
I have a number of heroes I still have warm feelings about. [Derek] Shackleton, for instance, was definitely, and still is, one of my great heroes. -- Edmund Hillary
But the makers of legend have seldom rested content to regard the world's great heroes as mere human beings who broke past the horizons that limited their fellows and returned such boons as any man with equal faith and courage might have found. -- Joseph Campbell
But if one could go back in time, I'd love to have been directed by Howard Hawks, who's one of my great heroes. One of the greatest directors there ever was. He directed probably one of the greatest westerns of all time in 'Rio Bravo'. -- Stephen Fry
I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting. -- Maynard Jackson
I do believe any hero is a person that can be knocked down. A failure isn't a person who gets knocked down; a failure is a person who stays down, and to me, the great heroes take the beating, get knocked down and stand back up again. Perseus is defined as one of the great heroes in literature, so you gotta take that on board. -- Sam Worthington
Walt Disney was my great hero. -- Stanislav Grof
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What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households. -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. -- Benjamin Disraeli
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. -- Peter S. Beagle
Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great. -- David Gemmell
Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification. -- Dalia Mogahed
My great-grandfather, Karl Wallenda, was my biggest hero in life, my biggest inspiration behind everything I do. -- Nik Wallenda
I think John Coltrane is one of the great American heroes, like Abraham Lincoln and Emily Dickinson. -- Simon Van Booy
Being a songwriter, singer, and a great part of a unit is more important than being Joe Guitar Hero. -- Vivian Campbell
There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me. -- J. R. Martinez
My heroes are, above all, the great 19th-century Americans: Emerson, Whitman, Dickinson and the others. I love the way they think. -- Marilynne Robinson
Muhammad Ali is a combination of personality and athlete who is probably better known around the world than any other. He became a great hero. -- Will McDonough
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds. -- Kit Carson
I would rather portray the hero if it's a really great film. All my favorite fictional film characters are heroes, such as in 'The Last of the Mohicans' and 'Robin Hood.' -- Jonathan Jackson
I think that when you're making your way up in the music industry, you have all these heroes and the reasons why they are your heroes. As soon as you get into the industry, your guidelines change a little bit. For me, my heroes now are great people first and great artists second. -- Taylor Swift
All our heroes, all our great stories are about failure. -- Peter Carey
To think great thoughts you must be heroes as well as idealists. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
I don't like nihilistic characters. As bad guys they're great, but as heroes they don't work. -- Drew Goddard
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. -- Brooke Westcott
Courage is instinct, and heroes are born in the moment. Trust yourself to be great, I do! -- D.C. Akers
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example. -- Benjamin Disraeli
We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. -- Chris Wooding
However great the advantages given us by nature, it is not she alone, but fortune with her, which makes heroes. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. -- Peter S. Beagle
The future historian will rank him as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century.{Stanton's opinion of the great Robert Ingersoll} -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me. -- Bonnie Raitt
The great man, Genghis Khan, only knew how to shoot eagles with an arrow. The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you. -- Mao Zedong
I've begun my career working with older heroes. The people I had been fan of, I now work with them. It's a great opportunity for me. -- Nayantara
In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed. -- George William Russell
Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
I think showing heroes as fallible helps us and reminds us that we are ourselves fallible and no man is perfect but we can still achieve great things. -- Columbus Short

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