In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. — Richard G. Scott Copy Share Image
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic… — Rob Hopkins Copy Share Image
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on… — Harriet Rubin Copy Share Image
The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and… — Orlando Bloom Copy Share Image
“And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic.” — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their… — Nicholas Meyer Copy Share Image
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though… — Bernie Siegel M.D Copy Share Image
They may be called the Palace Guard, the City Guard, or the Patrol. Whatever the name, their purpose in any work of… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Courage is a terribly important value. It means you don't run away when things are tough. It means you don't turn away… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
I am convinced that if we lose kids to the culture of drugs and materialism, of violence and war, it's because we… — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
Simply put: Thanksgiving is the day when the dominant white culture (and, sadly, most of the rest of the non-white but non-indigenous… — Robert Jensen Copy Share Image
In California, Jim Jones even staged a shooting of himself. The lesson of this was two-fold. One, that he was a god… — Julia Scheeres Copy Share Image
The equivocations, the confusions, the contradictions. There's no way we can live through or comprehend something so big that happened so long… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil;… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.” — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
“Heroes may be less than heroic, while the common man saves the day.” — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
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