Heroic Quotes
513 quotes by 412 authors
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True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others…
— Arthur Ashe
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Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
— Margaret Atwood
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Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
— Ansel Adams
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Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children…
— Evan Bayh
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Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.
— John Barth
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What is a society without a heroic dimension?
— Jean Baudrillard
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Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the…
— Andrew Bernstein
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When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
— Joseph Campbell
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I think that the romantic impulse is in all of us and that sometimes we live it for a short time, but it's not part…
— Jane Campion
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I'm not saying this in a condescending kind of way, but it's quite simple: The making of America was a heroic thing. Australia has a…
— Nick Cave
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Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune.
— Noam Chomsky
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If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.
— Noam Chomsky
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States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
— Noam Chomsky
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You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity…
— Diablo Cody
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not…
— Lascelles Abercrombie
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In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just…
— Aberjhani
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What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. It's astounding to me, for example, that so many people…
— James A. Baldwin
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The simple act of caring is heroic.
— Edward Albert
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Greek myths are heroic, noble and tragic; but the American Dream is heroic, comical, and uplifting. Americans are a people in whom overweening ambition is…
— John C. Wright
Who Wrote These Heroic Quotes
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