The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. — Jean-Paul Sartre 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
Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
Its Not A Single, Great Or A Heroic Deed That Defines Who U Really Are. Its The Little Things You Do Day… — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. — Edward Albert Copy Share Image
I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very… — David Tennant Copy Share Image
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Oh, he did look like a deity – the perfect balance of danger and charm, he was at the same time fascinating… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams.… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Hope is easy; knowledge is hard. Science is the one domain in which we human beings make a truly heroic effort to… — Sam Harris 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
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
...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I feel like I'll be defined more so by ... when I get a chance to play roles where I'm the father/husband.… — Michael Jai White Copy Share Image
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation,… — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
“What had not changed, though, was the heroic spirit of responsibility amid blood and failure. This struck me as the true image… — Paul Kalanithi Copy Share Image
“what makes and ordinary person heroic is when they give up the thing they want most” — Jane Heller Copy Share Image
Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche 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
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the most important thing is knowing when to quit. Sometimes being heroic is knowing when to say enough is enough.” — Nina Riggs Copy Share Image
The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. — John Cage Copy Share Image
Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. — Simon Heffer Copy Share Image
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. — Edward Ruscha Copy Share Image
I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image