Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. — Viktor E. Frankl
Are you the new person drawn toward me? To begin with, take warning - I am surely far different from what you suppose; Do you… — Walt Whitman
Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you… — C.S. Lewis
In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I… — Alberto Manguel
Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just… — Philip Roth
I want to do something splendidâ€¦ Something heroic or wonderful that wonâ€™t be forgotten after Iâ€™m deadâ€¦ I think I shall write books. — Louisa May Alcott
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
The other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency; a reverence for our past act or word, because the eyes of others have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. — Brandon Mull
She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said dismissively. "I was expecting something with a… — Patrick Rothfuss
the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing:… — Nikos Kazantzakis
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly,… — Jonathan Stroud
For although this was a very heroic war, with a parade of every sort of high moral principle, and with the most sonorous language employed… — James Branch Cabell
If things go wrong, I'll lead them away. Once it's clear, get back to the car. If you don't see me in five minutes, then… — Derek Landy
War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow… — Tite Kubo
We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. — Marguerite Duras
He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve… — Libba Bray
At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings,… — Jean Cocteau
Aja gave Loor an up and down once-over. She then said, "Is Loor a man's name or a woman's name?" Ouch. Loor answered, "It is… — D. J. MacHale

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