In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. — William Lloyd Garrison Copy Share Image
Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so. — Ryan Shapiro Copy Share Image
He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott 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
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
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
Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies… — Virginia Woolf 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
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“His character would be blamed, loathed, discussed, and adored – but somewhere there, behind his mask of a hero, Cardew would remain… — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
The son will run away from the family not at eighteen but at twelve, emancipated by his gluttonous precocity; he will fly… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect succession of rhymes, just… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw… — Tom Peters 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
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed,… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish… — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“Do not call us heroes. Not if you are calling us that in order to absolve yourself of guilt over sending us… — Barbara Nickless Copy Share Image
The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance… — Mordechai Anielewicz Copy Share Image
Boxing is a glorious sport to watch and boxers are incredible, heroic athletes, but it's also, to be honest, a stupid game… — Jay-Z Copy Share Image
To be connected with the church is to be associated with scoundrels, warmongers, fakes, child-molesters, murderers, adulterers, and hypocrites of every description.… — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
“Heroes deal out vengeance, wiping out insults, and in an existential sense denying their own death. In twentieth-century camps, however, Todorov found,… — Edward E. Baptist Copy Share Image
I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with… — Josemaria Escriva Copy Share Image
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half… — Steven Hall 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
Courage is a heart word. The root of the word courage is cor - the Latin word for heart. In one of… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even… — Scott Snyder Copy Share Image
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. — Benjamin Disraeli 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
“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and” — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
