Heroic Quotes

513 Heroic quotes by 409 unique authors

No to spectacle no to virtuosity no to transformations and magic and make believe no to glamour and transcendency of the star image no to… — Unknown Author
If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to… — Josef Pieper
The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our… — Sam Keen
Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. — Jane McGonigal
One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That… — James Ohlen
America’s founding ideal was the principle of individual rights. Nothing more-and nothing less. The rest-everything that America achieved, everything she became, everything 'noble and just,'… — Ayn Rand
Here then is a great #‎ truth . In the #‎ pain , the #‎ agony , and the #‎ heroic endeavors of life, we… — James E. Faust
I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way… — Rob Lowe
I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved… — Deborah Sampson
I'd love to say something heroic. I'd love to say we made history. But basically it was a bunch of guys parked around the Bay… — Greg Noll
When I wrote War Against the Mafia as a Vietnam statement, I didn't expect much to come of it-but quite a bit came and it… — Don Pendleton
In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier… — Irene Gut Opdyke
Let us teach our people again to be proud that they are Filipinos. Let us teach them to realize anew that being a Filipino means… — Carlos P. Romulo
Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important… — George Lucas
The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written… — David Selbourne
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if… — Joseph Campbell
Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. — Joseph Campbell
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. — Hugh Laurie
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. — Thomas Merton
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the… — Richard J. Foster
Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. — Isaac
On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither… — Kim Do-Jin
She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in… — Kate Winslet
The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them… — Ernest Becker
Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. — Ernest Becker

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