Common Quote by Jacques Maritain

Our media provides a continuing message that for men, heroism is defined through association with control, independence, and the ability to commit violence, from…

— Deeyah Khan

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

— Joseph Campbell

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.

— Roswell Dwight Hitchcock

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more…

— Vivienne Westwood

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know…

— Johan Huizinga

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting…

— Joseph Campbell

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“It can come a bit hard sometimes to see one's own unique, heroic life pinned so pitilessly to a wall. At other times it…

— Stephen Fry

“I am a man who would live an heroic life and make the world more endurable in his own sight. If, in some moment…

— Henry Miller

Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“You are a Hero. Be Heroic. Always.”

— Vineet Raj Kapoor

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic.

— Elbert Hubbard