Confronting Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an…

— Mike Alsford

“This is not to say that the point of the hard way is that we must be heroic. The attitude of "heroism" is based…

— Chögyam Trungpa

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

— John Dorian- scrubs

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

— Criss Jami

Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But…

— Wilferd Peterson

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

— Anonymous

“We find a model for learning how to live in stories about heroism. The heroic quest is about saying yes to yourself and, in…

— Carol S. Pearson

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

— Criss Jami

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

— Edward Abbey

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne