Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. — Elbert Hubbard
What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. — James A. Baldwin
In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United… — William Jennings Bryan
Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. — Susan Sontag
This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the… — Henry Mintzberg
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

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