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Hero Quotes by Mark Twain
- Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
- We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there…
- Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money.
- Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very…
- If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
- Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over…
More Hero Quotes
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm bad at picking heroes. — Margaret Atwood
- No hero is mortal till he dies. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Clint Eastwood has always been a hero. — Kevin Bacon
- If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women. — Abigail Adams
- Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. — John Barth
- As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural… — John Adams