Heroism Quote by Natalie Clifford Barney Download Open image “Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity…” — Natalie Clifford Barney ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Heroism Heroism Mediocrity Mediocrity Renouncement Renouncement Heroism
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. — Samuel Daniel Copy Share Image
Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The signature of mediocrity is chronic inconstancy. The signature of greatness is a disciplined and consistent focus on the right things. — James C. Collins Copy Share Image
Paris has always seemed to me to be the only city in which one can live as one sees fit. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
A good book is never exhausted; we are never exhausted by a good book. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Like all religions, love has more believers than practitioners. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
To mis-quote is the very foundation of original style. The success of most writers is almost entirely due to continuous and courageous abuse of… — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Tea - that perfume that one drinks, that connecting hyphen. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Our prejudices, our antipathies, are our natural defenses against what we could not assimilate. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
The religion of art, like the religion of politics, was born from the ruins of Christianity. Art inherited from the old religion the power… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
The last act in the biography of the hero is that of the death or departure. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Forgotten hero was never the real hero, real hero can not be forgotten.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But surely even heroes weary lugging around the burdens of their heroism.” — J.H. Trumble Copy Share Image
“Saving others is always more important than saving yourself. It has to be, or none of us would do any good.” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There was no heroism in 'Manichitrathazhu' but there will be heroism in 'Chandramukhi.' — P. Vasu Copy Share Image
The universe appears to me like an immense, inexorable torture-garden…Passions, greed, hatred, and lies; social institutions, justice, love, glory, heroism, and religion: these are… — Octave Mirbeau Copy Share Image
The epic disappeared along with the age of personal heroism; there can be no epic with artillery. — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve… — Arthur Ashe Copy Share Image
“Hero' is not an official status or designation, but if the world recognize you as a hero, it is the highest honor you will… — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
