Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they… — Alan Moore
One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive. — Friedrich Nietzsche
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. — J. Robert Oppenheimer
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. — George Orwell
It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. — Louis Pasteur
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. — Luigi Pirandello
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. — Francois Rabelais
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John… — Mitt Romney
I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath. — Ja Rule
One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. — May Sarton
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. — Walter Scott
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic… — Zadie Smith
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To… — Henry David Thoreau
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. — Mark Twain
As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if… — Hugo Weaving
I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than… — Vivienne Westwood
I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital. — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not… — Philip Zimbardo

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