I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone…

I like language, words. And I think the survival skills I've developed over the years have added a lot to my perspective.

— Sixto Rodriguez

So, you know, when I think of survival as a creative act, it's not trying to plaster over the isolation or to, you know,…

— Suleika Jaouad

Quite often when you help poor people, they don't think about the environment. They think about survival.

— Wangari Maathai

She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

— Greg Gutfeld

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and…

— Randy Pausch

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots…

— Tim Holden

“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all”

— John Dorian- scrubs

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows…

— David A. Cleinman

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather…

— James Surowiecki

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

— Jessica Lynch

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel