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
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing… — Michael Gove 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
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic… — Anonymous 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
“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
You want to believe in black and white, good and evil, heroes that are truly heroic, villains that are just plain bad,… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
To me, he's a hero, ... He's not polite. He's not someone you want to take home to meet your mother, necessarily.… — Hugh Laurie 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
I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but… — Jane Campion 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
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
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
I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's… — Joan Wallach Scott 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
In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic… — Suzanne Gordon Copy Share Image
“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and” — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image
I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. — Warren G. Bennis Copy Share Image
“If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a brave and heroic death.” — Derek Landy Copy Share Image
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image