Heroic Quotes

513 quotes by 412 authors

Gird up your loins for the task that now lies ahead. I had asked you for men, money and materials. I have got them in… — Subhas Chandra Bose
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it;… — Samuel Smiles
Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting… — Wilferd Peterson
Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we… — Wilferd Peterson
Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored Information, by the cells? And… — Albert Claude
The year 1896 ... marked the beginning of what has been aptly termed the heroic age of Physical Science. Never before in the history of… — Ernest Rutherford
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths — Daisaku Ikeda
I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man cannot live and… — Laurens van der Post
If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of utmost importance; very various; heroic and… — Virginia Woolf
Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead… — Henry Ward Beecher
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. — Richard G. Scott
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. — William Lloyd Garrison
The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that… — Ronald Reagan
At Waco, was there really an urgency to get those people out of the compound at that particular time? Was the press going to make… — Clint Eastwood
Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is… — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Woe to the people that fails to honor its heroes! It will cease producing them, cease knowing them. Heroes spring from the essence of their… — Rudolf Hess
Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude.… — Harry S. Truman

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