Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's… — John Green
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of… — Robert Frost
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of… — Kenneth Grahame
In the heroic effort of the handcart pioneers, we learn a great truth. All must pass through a refinerâ€™s fire, and the insignificant and unimportant… — James E. Faust
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply donâ€™t feel very much. — Franny Billingsley
Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience.… — Kristin Cashore
The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. — John Dewey
You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) — Tamora Pierce
[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of… — Dorothy L. Sayers
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in… — Graham Greene
It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice. — Frances Hardinge
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if… — Allan Pease
There came to him an image of manâ€™s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all manâ€™s life was like a tiny… — Thomas Wolfe
Truth is a pathless land. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. — Tsugumi Ohba
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and… — Jane Goodall
exile is strangely compelling to think about but terrible to experience. It is the unhealable rift forced between a human being and a native place,… — Edward Said

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