Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball,… — Gregg Easterbrook
One of the oddest features of western Christianized culture is its ready acceptance of the myth of the stable family and the happy marriage. We… — Jonathan Raban
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't… — Kurt Masur
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the… — Steve Almond
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. — Edward Ruscha
To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something. — Criss Jami
To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting… — Harriet Rubin
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of… — Mary Anne Radmacher
The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic… — Anthony Minghella
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do… — Julie Burchill
The exercise of patience involves a continual practice of the presence of God, for we may be called upon at any moment for an almost… — Frederick William Faber
The imperative to develop new technologies and implement them on a heroic scale no longer seems like the childish preoccupation of a few nerds with… — Neal Stephenson
Decisive inventions and discoveries always are initiated by an intellectual or moral stimulus as their actual motivating force, but, usually, the final impetus to human… — Stefan Zweig
To learn to die is an heroic work. — Mercy Otis Warren
Creating these messes that go from administration to administration and then you swoop in and clean them up - with that heroic Delta force -… — Edwidge Danticat
Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you… — Peter Dinklage
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. — Bob Seger
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture… — Michael Cunningham
I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and… — Paul Giamatti
People aren't universally heroic. — Alexei Sayle
In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? — Valmiki
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to… — Tom Paulin
Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. — William Butler Yeats
The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not… — Thomas B. Macaulay
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with… — Marcus Aurelius

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