Heroic Quote by Ellen Goodman

“But one day, she swore, she'd breathe light and color back into the dimness that had diminished her life.”

— Tahereh Mafi

“She was fierce in the presence of death, heroic even, as she was at no other time. Its threat gave her direction, clarity, audacity.”

— Toni Morrison

Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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…

— Patrick Rothfuss

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a…

— Adelbert von Chamisso

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

— Greg Gutfeld

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even…

— Jim Fergus

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…

— Randy Pausch

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots…

— Tim Holden

“Admitting we're not heroic is when we're the most heroic of all”

— John Dorian- scrubs

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that…

— Havelock Ellis

“The Coward will run away from danger, only to strike in the dark. The Heroine will run through the dark, even though she knows…

— David A. Cleinman

Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather…

— James Surowiecki

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

— Jessica Lynch

I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time…

— Vaclav Havel