When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man. — Ioan Gruffudd Copy Share Image
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton Copy Share Image
There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year. — Daniel Ellsberg Copy Share Image
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice. — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is not slow to equip us in the prison-uniform of the party to which we adhere. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A happy life is impossible; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting… — Dwayne Johnson Copy Share Image
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. — Jane McGonigal Copy Share Image
Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean 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
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe — Bob Goff Copy Share Image
August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
One solace yet remains for us who came Into this world in days when story lacked Severe research, that in our hearts… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large… — Arlen Specter Copy Share Image
In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological… — Ian Svenonius Copy Share Image
I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative… — Anita Sarkeesian Copy Share Image
The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We may need simple and heroic legends for that peculiar genre of literature known as the textbook. But historians must also labor… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the… — Stephen King 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
“There is heroism to be found in great battles, it is true; warriors with stable knees who fight and know that they… — Kevin Hearne Copy Share Image
“We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself… — Carol S. Pearson Copy Share Image
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Invention is an Heroic thing, and plac'd above the reach of a low, and vulgar Genius. It requires an active, a bold,… — Thomas Sprat Copy Share Image
I feel that humor, just like Fred Astaire dance numbers or these lightweight musicals, gives you a little oasis. You are in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November… — Adolf Hitler 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
“If you don't see me in five minutes, then I've probably died a brave and heroic death.” — Derek Landy 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
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
“whatever her own parents did or didn’t do was nothing short of heroic and” — Donia Bijan Copy Share Image