Heroic Quotes
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Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.
— Edward Albert
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth ...
— Robert Frost
Whether you're heroic or heartless may depend on a contextual factor whose impact is far greater than we would tend to assume.
— Richard E. Nisbett
An honest and self-aware atheism, therefore, should proudly recognize itself as the quintessential expression of heroic irrationalism:
— David Bentley Hart
But in a home where grief is fresh and patience has long worn thin, making it through another day is often heroic in itself.
— Melanie Bennett
the toe of an enormous and heroic
— Eleanor Roosevelt
I think it is rather heroic to go into a war zone where everyone is trying to kill you, and you have no way of shooting back.
— Kerry Greenwood
The enemy: Will you obey ... even in this 'ridiculous' little detail? You, with God's grace: I will obey ... even in this 'heroic' little detail.
— Josemaria Escriva
It's in the routine, not the big heroic moments, that our true character is exposed. That
— Dave Workman
And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.
— Elizabeth Gaskell
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.
— Jennifer Aniston
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. If you want to see the heroic, look at those who can love in return for hatred.
— Krishna Dharma
The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity.
— Henry David Thoreau
In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
— Leland Ryken
The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.
— Joseph Campbell
We passed for jolly, unruly, even dangerous rioters, which was untrue of me, and we enjoyed a doubtful but heroic reputation.
— Hermann Hesse
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
The fact that I had been on the point of making a similar heroic gesture was quite ignored, and this only increased my irritation.
— Wilbur Smith
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact
— Joseph Campbell
There were enough examples, often of a heroic nature, which proved that apathy could be overcome, irritability suppressed.
— Viktor E. Frankl
A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.
— Richard Watson Gilder
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.
— Brandon Mull
The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.
— Elbert Hubbard
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil.
— Ernest Becker
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
— J. Robert Oppenheimer
To be a woman is a great adventure;To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak
Whenever she felt besieged by doubts, she would think of herself as standing valiantly alone, as almost heroic, so as to squash her uncertainty.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
We learned then that war was not a quick heroic charge but a slow, incredibly complicated matter.
— John Steinbeck
Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.
— Richard C. Armitage
I find nothing to be more heroic than someone chasing their own dream against all odds.
— S.W. Southwick
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant because you're always going against the conformity of the group. — Philip G. Zimbardo
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.
— Rene Auberjonois
Charlotte dropped her gaze to her feet. You're the most heroic man I've ever met, Stone Hammond. Slowly she lifted her face. I owe you everything.
— Karen Witemeyer
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things ... We don't need to create them.
— Jessica Lynch
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!
— Varric Tethras
The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.
— Gilbert Murray
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
— Robert Downey Jr.
We don't relate to her too much because you don't want the heroic character to not be heroic.
— Radha Mitchell
What a grand thing it is to be loved! What a far grander thing it is to love! The heart becomes heroic, by dint of passion.
— Victor Hugo
He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.
— Sarah Knowles Bolton
We are a nation of shop keepers.
— Apsley Cherry-Garrard
We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
— Yukio Mishima
He's just gone inside to be heroic.
— Marissa Meyer
The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
— Dean Cavanagh
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
— Hugh Laurie
Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've ... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.
— Rene Auberjonois
Inconvienience pushes one into heroic action...
— K. Farrell St. Germain
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by.
— Peter Dinklage
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.
— Bob Goff
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
— Warren G. Bennis
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
Fascinating, isn't it, how often heroic and foolish turn out to be one and the same.
— Marissa Meyer
We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned.
— Ellen Goodman
I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy)
— John F. Kennedy
We have every right to dream heroic dreams.
— Ronald Reagan
I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story.
— Etgar Keret
Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end.
— Mary Collyer
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.
— Joseph Campbell
The simple act of caring is heroic.
— Edward Albert
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.
— Alex Gibney
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or,
— Michael Pollan
We don't need any more writers as solitary heroes. We need a heroic writer's movement: assertive, militant, pugnacious.
— Toni Morrison
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
— James A. Garfield
