Best 122 quotes in «heroic quotes» category

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.

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

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

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear arms," but he did. In the meantime, the clear and present danger is the Republicans in the Senate. A lot of politics isn't heroic, it's as day-to-day as our lives themselves. We always want to make the Byronic choices, but Byron himself was not Byronic all the time either.

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

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war.

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

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

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

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.

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic.

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded.

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide.

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.

The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience.

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

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

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

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

The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION.

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly.

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

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.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

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

The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

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

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even terrifying), but heroic.

...a person never really knows how he or she will react at those worst moments, do they? Each of us hopes to be brave, to be kind, to be heroic. But how often do we get the chance to find out which it'll be?

Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting.

Being afraid, being uncertain you’ll succeed, but going ahead anyway— that’s what makes a hero, Berhanu.

Finally Marcus stepped forward. "If you insist on going through me to get him, it's your call. But I warn you, I will probably cry when you hurt me, and you'll fell bad about it later." Vinci looked at him. "That's your defiant speech?" "Get used to it," said Marcus. "There's a lot more useless heroics where that came from.

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.