The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways,… — Bryant H. McGill Copy Share Image
It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to… — John Boyle O'Reilly Copy Share Image
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place… — Denise Linn Copy Share Image
Most of us are flawed, complicated people, and we're all trying very hard to disguise that or hide it from the public.… — Treat Williams Copy Share Image
For me, writing a novel is more like digging a well than climbing a mountain - some heroic thing where I set… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
There was about all the Romans a heroic tone peculiar to ancient life. Their virtues were great and noble, and these virtues… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France,… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
A healthy person is not perfect but perfectible, not a done deal but a work in progress. Staying healthy takes discipline, work,… — David Richo Copy Share Image
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody." "You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Israel exists; it has a right to exist in peace behind secure and defensible borders; and it has a right to demand… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Many heroic things happened during slavery. And remember that there was a national movement away from it even at the time. The… — Wynton Marsalis Copy Share Image
Stop," I said. "Please do not further endorken yourself to me. You have great hair and a car that is most fly,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of… — George Meyer Copy Share Image
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
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