Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure… — Kurt Vonnegut
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... — Robert Frost
I was hugely impressed... was the ultimate example of a man who knew what he didn't know, was perfectly willing to admit it, and didn't… — Randy Pausch
Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. — John Knowles
The majority of people are ready to throw their aims and purposes overboard, and give up at the first sign of opposition or misfortune. A… — Napoleon Hill
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. — Jim Butcher
We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can… — Howard Zinn
Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to… — Thomas Huxley
Conflict is the microscope of a book. When it's trained on a character, you see what's underneath the narratives of physical description. You see whether… — J R Ward
It's a stark thought that when we die most of us will leave behind uneaten biscuits, unused coffee, half toilet rolls, half cartons of milk… — Steven Hall
We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. — Albert Einstein
Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless — J.R.R. Tolkien
He says he had to go help someone in a desperate situation. Who, exactly, he refuses to say. He doesnâ€™t know when heâ€™s going to… — Katie MacAlister
tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. — Jean Vanier
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean
The world can no longer be left to mere diplomats, politicians, and business leaders. They have done the best they could, no doubt. But this… — Dallas Willard
An intelligent person, looking out of his eyes and hearkening in his ears, with a smile on his face all the time, will get more… — Robert Louis Stevenson
To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. — Boris Pasternak

Who Wrote These Heroic Quotes

409 authors contributed a total of 513 Heroic Quotes, led by these top contributors: