Heroic Quotes

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain

Happiness, Keep, Unhappy

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell

Thinking, Ourselves, Quit

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility for their children and recognize the impact they have on their families' well-being.
Evan Bayh

Men, Children, Single

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ.
Mitt Romney

Faith, Powerful, Jesus

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

Great, Thoughts, Makes

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas Merton

Peace, Truth, War

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell

Human, Pinch, Beings

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hero, Cannot, Unless

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 is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Wisdom, Fool, Greatest

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams

Truth, Struggles, Myths

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott

Wisdom, Poetry, Mind

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
Bryant H. McGill

Beauty, Best, Art

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Hero, Verb, Noun

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.
Steve Martin

Success, Learning, Comedy

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.
Norm MacDonald

Lost, Battle, Else

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.
Eugene V. Debs

Revolution, Word, Languages

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
J. Robert Oppenheimer

Days, Material, Continue

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.
Dean Koontz

Another, Seen, Level

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
Francois Rabelais

Virtue, Owe, Godlike

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Great, Why, Try

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.
David Duchovny

Work, Mom, Real

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Luigi Pirandello

Time, Anyone, Gentleman

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Life, Great, Everyday

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
Richard G. Scott

Freedom, Enjoy, Effort

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.
Sarah Michelle Gellar

Woman, Film, Stand

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.
Diablo Cody

Women, Hope, Experience

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance.
Philip K. Dick

Ordinary, Resistance, Tyrant

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 than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.
Vivienne Westwood

Life, Girl, Parents

What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Jean Baudrillard

Society, Dimension

I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.
Elizabeth Wurtzel

Work, Integrity, Person

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