Heroic Quotes

513 quotes by 409 authors

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. — Chris Lowell
Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. — Rene Auberjonois
I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. — Daniel Radcliffe
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in… — George Meyer
Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. — Ezra Pound
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he… — Jean de la Bruyere
Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. — Edward Abbey
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. — Edward Abbey
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. — Jean-Paul Sartre
The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without… — Pericles
You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. — Alan Furst
Soil is not usually lost in slabs or heaps of magnificent tonnage. It is lost a little at a time over millions of acres by… — Wendell Berry
Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. — Socrates
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research,… — Danah Zohar
We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection… — Swami Vivekananda
Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it… — Herodotus
[About the great synthesis of atomic physics in the 1920s:] It was a heroic time. It was not the doing of any one man; it… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. ... We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say… — Ronald Reagan

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