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Heroic Quotes

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The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.
Eugene V. Debs

Authors on Heroic Quotes: Joseph Campbell Aldous Huxley Thomas Carlyle Friedrich Nietzsche Edward Abbey Jacques Audiard Ellen Goodman Susan Orlean Hugh Laurie Ralph Waldo Emerson Jessica Lynch Criss Jami Isaac Philip Zimbardo Robert Barron Mercy Otis Warren William Davenant Mark McKinnon George Sand Darryl Pinckney J. Robert Oppenheimer Sarah MacLean Annie Dillard Alexei Sayle Francois de La Rochefoucauld Eugene V. Debs Susan Sontag Luigi Pirandello Viktor E. Frankl Jiddu Krishnamurti Alan Furst Isabel Bishop Pico Iyer
2.
But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

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It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals
Angela Davis

4.
I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
Chris Lowell

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What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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To learn to die is an heroic work.
Mercy Otis Warren

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Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.
Joseph Campbell

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To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.
Viktor E. Frankl

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Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind.
Dorothy Day

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People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
Ryan Reynolds

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The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
Edgar Degas

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In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?
Valmiki

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The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
Leonard Ravenhill

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What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.
Alan Furst

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An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
Susan Orlean

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The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
Jacques Audiard

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Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.
Lynn G. Robbins

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I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision.
Liu Xiaobo

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Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form.
Robert Barron

22.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
Bob Seger

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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

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The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
Benjamin Cardozo

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Any society that you build will have its limits. And outside the limits of any society the unruly and heroic tramps will wander with their wild and virgin thoughts…planning ever new and dreadful outbursts of rebellion.
Renzo Novatore

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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
Aldous Huxley

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In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
William Lloyd Garrison

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I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
Michael Emerson

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They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
Hugh Laurie

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We have every right to dream heroic dreams.
Ronald Reagan

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Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello

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All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
Edward Ruscha

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Truth is a pathless land.
Jiddu Krishnamurti

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Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
Jean-Paul Sartre

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Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Richard G. Scott

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Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.
Vin Diesel

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We live in an age in which there is no heroic death.
Yukio Mishima

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Go back to the '30s, '40s, '50s, and it was the discovery of heroic interventions, the ability to cure people with penicillin or do an operation to stop disease that was what saved the day. Primary care physicians couldn't do all that much that really demonstrated a difference. The people who control and work with you to control your blood pressure, they're not rewarded for doing that or to be innovative about doing that. So, the result is half of Americans have uncontrolled high blood pressure, despite seeing clinicians.
Atul Gawande

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There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
Ian Frazier

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To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.
Frances Sargent Osgood

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I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
Jean-Luc Godard

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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.
Mitt Romney

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A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.
John Dewey

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The only training for the heroic is the mundane.
Edmund Burke

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Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais

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Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
Martha Stewart

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People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
Gene Cernan