Heroic Quotes

513 quotes by 409 authors

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character. — Robert Grudin
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. — Benjamin Cardozo
Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse,… — Jim Fergus
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality.… — Rudolf Arnheim
Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the… — Tony Wilson
The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. — Jonah Sachs
The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact — Joseph Campbell
The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive — Joseph Campbell
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we… — Ken Block
It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery. — Renzo Gracie
How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter… — William Davenant
In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We cannot look upon our lives as dreams of a dreamer who has no awakening in all time. We have a personality to which matter… — Rabindranath Tagore
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
I see on a immense scale, and as clearly as in a demonstration in a laboratory, that good comes out of evil; that the impartiality… — John Burroughs
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. — Hans Urs von Balthasar
Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or… — Rachel Caine
The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what… — Victor Hugo
Im all about entertaining and keeping a reader on the edge of their seat, so to me, the social issues have to be meaningful and… — Andrew Gross

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