Heroic Quotes

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

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

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

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

To learn to die is an heroic work.

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.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?

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

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

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

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

Truth is a pathless land.

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

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.

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.

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

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

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

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

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

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

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

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

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

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

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

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

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

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.

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