Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

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
As Charles Lamb says, there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident, so I now say it… — William James
My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. — Charles Dickens
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. — Joseph Campbell
We have every right to dream heroic dreams. — Ronald Reagan
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls... — Mitt Romney
An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. — Frank Bruno
The passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93, recognizing the potential danger that the aircraft they were aboard posed to large numbers of innocent… — Arlen Specter
An artist's fine goal is to manifest a well-nigh heroic self-discipline, carefully attending to all that concerns him. — Eric Maisel
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. — Roswell Dwight Hitchcock
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the… — Benjamin Cardozo

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