Quotes about Heroic

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 4

When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. Votes: 4

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood. Votes: 3

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature. Votes: 3

Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. Votes: 3

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... Votes: 3

Wanderess, Wanderess, weave us a story of seduction and ruse. Heroic be the Wanderess, the world be her muse. Votes: 3

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. Votes: 3

To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform Votes: 3

If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff. Votes: 3

Traditionally the Nude was used to express formulations about life as larger-than-life, as Heroic or Ideal... The nude is not a 'genre' subject. Votes: 3

Heroic ages are not and never were sentimental and those daring conquistadores who conquered entire worlds for their Spain or Portugal received lamentably little thanks from their kings. Votes: 3

One of the problems of other MMOs combat is that you often have scenarios where you have multiple heroes beating on a single enemy. That just isn't very Heroic Votes: 3

Heroic dreams are the consolation of the unhappy. After all, when people like us say we're being heroic, it usually means we're about to kill each other--or kill ourselves. Votes: 3

The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. Votes: 3

Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it. Votes: 3

Like prospecting in the 19th century, reconnaissance of the asteroids would of necessity take place in an arena where trouble is likely and help is distant. Heroic stories of individual triumph and failure, set on landscapes never seen by humankind, are in the cards. Votes: 3

Heroic figures are now obsolete,So Demigod and Devil find retreatIn minds of children - as rare beasts and men,Elsewhere extinct, persist in hill or fenFrom man protected - where each form assumesGigantic stature and intention, loomsFrom wind-moved, twilight-woven histories:For them each flower teems with mysteries. Votes: 3

The simple act of caring is heroic. Votes: 2

What is a hero without love for mankind. Votes: 2

What is a society without a heroic dimension? Votes: 2

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Votes: 2

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story. Votes: 2

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one. Votes: 2

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world. Votes: 2

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Votes: 2

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. Votes: 2

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. Votes: 2

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. Votes: 2

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Votes: 2

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being. Votes: 2

We relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Votes: 2

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. Votes: 2

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Votes: 2

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Votes: 2

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. Votes: 2

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery. Votes: 2

Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Votes: 2

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope. Votes: 2

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days. Votes: 2

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. Votes: 2

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. Votes: 2

I salute all the nations of the Arab Spring and I salute the heroic people of Syria who are striving for freedom, democracy and reform. Votes: 2

Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol. Votes: 2

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other mens lives. Votes: 2

The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. Votes: 2

If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold. Votes: 2

Nothing is given to man on earth - struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible - the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen. Votes: 2

In the pain, the agony, and the heroic endeavors of life, we pass through a refiner's fire, and the insignificant and the unimportant in our lives can melt away like dross and make our faith bright, intact, and strong. Votes: 2

No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies. Votes: 2

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Votes: 2

There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore. Votes: 2

The first thought that I had about really trying to get sober was, 'Man, I could do a lot of good in the world. I can lead by example and just be this heroic recovery guy.' And that's just a bad reason to get sober. You can't get sober for anybody's benefit, let alone the world at large. You really got to do it for yourself. Votes: 2

People aren't universally heroic. Votes: 0

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic! Votes: 0

Life is a heroic faith. Votes: 0

A heroic nature is very Greek. Votes: 0

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists. Votes: 0

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate. Votes: 0

Morning brings back the heroic ages. Votes: 0

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure Votes: 0

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds. Votes: 0

You will do heroic deeds by faith. Votes: 0

Those who dare try are heroic souls. Votes: 0

We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Votes: 0

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic. Votes: 0

I grew up reading books about heroic collies. Votes: 0

To learn to die is an heroic work. Votes: 0

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic. Votes: 0

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution. Votes: 0

The truth is always more heroic than the hype. Votes: 0

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger. Votes: 0

It was a tragic end to a heroic life. Votes: 0

Life could only be lived with a heroic faith. Votes: 0

The only training for the heroic is the mundane. Votes: 0

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic. Votes: 0

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic. Votes: 0

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character. Votes: 0

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. Votes: 0

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic. Votes: 0

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army! Votes: 0

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh. Votes: 0

War sounds romantic, heroic even, until everyone you know starts dying. Votes: 0

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. Votes: 0

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous. Votes: 0

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate. Votes: 0

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds. Votes: 0

a woman, when she is heroic, is not heroic by halves. Votes: 0

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. Votes: 0

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic. Votes: 0

Perhaps elements like tenacity and humility combine to form a heroic compound. Votes: 0

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious. Votes: 0

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. Votes: 0

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true? Votes: 0

We live in an age in which there is no heroic death. Votes: 0

Some forms of absolutism are not bad; they may even be heroic. Votes: 0

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something. Votes: 0

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic. Votes: 0

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to. Votes: 0

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge. Votes: 0

Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism. Votes: 0

What makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. Votes: 0

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. Votes: 0

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. Votes: 0

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. Votes: 0

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others. Votes: 0

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 0

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. Votes: 0

A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty. Votes: 0

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives. Votes: 0

People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. Votes: 0

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. Votes: 0

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. Votes: 0

The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. Votes: 0

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery. Votes: 0

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor. Votes: 0

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them. Votes: 0

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. Votes: 0

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Votes: 0

No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. Votes: 0

In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. Votes: 0

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. Votes: 0

Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. Votes: 0

I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. Votes: 0

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Votes: 0

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Votes: 0

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. Votes: 0

Dying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. Votes: 0

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals Votes: 0

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. Votes: 0

A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. Votes: 0

In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. Votes: 0

Our best presidents have really combined domestic leadership with heroic achievements in foreign affairs or war. Votes: 0

A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. Votes: 0

In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. Votes: 0

The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. Votes: 0

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. Votes: 0

Those Victorians: endlessly fascinating, broad in their learning, heroic in their achievements, in parts completely mad. Votes: 0

It did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice. Votes: 0

To be a woman is a great adventure; To drive men mad is a heroic thing. Votes: 0

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Votes: 0

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale Votes: 0

There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds. Votes: 0

I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. Votes: 0

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action. Votes: 0

Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention. Votes: 0

Love doesn't mean doing extraordinary or heroic things. It means knowing how to do ordinary things with tenderness. Votes: 0

Suicides aren't heroic in my opinion. And I don't think anybody ever really knows why somebody commits suicide. Votes: 0

Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy. Votes: 0

You are brave, kicking a chained prisoner. They must sing heroic ballads about you on winter nights!" (Alanna) Votes: 0

The emotions - love, mirth, the heroic, wonder, tranquility, fear, anger, sorrow, disgust - are in the audience. Votes: 0

A happy life is impos­si­ble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. Votes: 0

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. Votes: 0

The heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. Votes: 0

I never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way. Votes: 0

tragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. Votes: 0

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod. Votes: 0

There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. Votes: 0

There's nothing romantic, nothing grand, nothing heroic, nothing brave, nothing like that about drinking. It's a real coward's death. Votes: 0

The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. Votes: 0

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. Votes: 0

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore. Votes: 0

Avatars are a way to express our true selves, our most heroic, idealized version of who we might become. Votes: 0

There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism. Votes: 0

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that, Votes: 0

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece. Votes: 0

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that. Votes: 0

I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period. Votes: 0

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures. Votes: 0

You exalt me Bati,This is message to the society,Brightest day demandsstruggling, suffering and sacrifice,heroic labor would suffice." Votes: 0

Man's natural and inevitable urge to deny mortality and achieve a heroic self-image are the root causes of human evil. Votes: 0

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths. Votes: 0

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose. Votes: 0

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone! Votes: 0

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed. Votes: 0

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard. Votes: 0

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. Votes: 0

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. Votes: 0

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much. Votes: 0

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls... Votes: 0

Oaths and curses are a proof of a most heroic courage, at least in appearance, which answers the same end. Votes: 0

A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action. Votes: 0

The only absolutely and unapproachably heroic element in the soldier's work seems to be-that he is paid little for it-and regularly. Votes: 0

An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process. Votes: 0

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events Votes: 0

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events. Votes: 0

The determination in your heroic effort Will permeate your mind and heart Even after your success or failure Is long forgotten. Votes: 0

The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement. Votes: 0

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements. Votes: 0

I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. Votes: 0

It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward. Votes: 0

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories. Votes: 0

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe Votes: 0

There's a heroic amount of effort that goes into making him [Doctor Strange] a superhero by the end of the film. Votes: 0

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that. Votes: 0

Virtue alone is sweet society, It keeps the key to all heroic hearts, And opens you a welcome in them all. Votes: 0

My stepfather stepped in where no man would've stepped in - six kids, five of them boys - and that's heroic. Votes: 0

I was born at six months, and I weighed 900 grams [less than two pounds]. I have a very heroic birth story. Votes: 0

I should throw you off this building minus the flying horse and see how heroic you sound on the way down. Votes: 0

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. Votes: 0

You exalt me Bati,This is the message to the society,Brightest day demands struggling, suffering and sacrifice,heroic labor would suffice. Votes: 0

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. Votes: 0

I'm shadowboxing in a match the shadow is always going to win. (as a young man battling his deceased brother's heroic legacy) Votes: 0

Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues. Votes: 0

Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way. Votes: 0

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. Votes: 0

The quest for heroic adventure then is a quest for the gospel, although it might not be seen that way by everyone. Votes: 0

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place. Votes: 0

Common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just ordinarily good and kind. Votes: 0

Elements of the heroic exist in almost every individual: it is only the felicitous development of them all in one that is rare. Votes: 0

The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together! Votes: 0

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths Votes: 0

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves. Votes: 0

Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job. Votes: 0

The Japanese covet important symbols - their heroic past as enshrined in Yasukuni, the Imperial family which has never been sullied by scandal. Votes: 0

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. Votes: 0

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself. Votes: 0

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative. Votes: 0

Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it. Votes: 0

For church planters, the motivation is not about the romantic or heroic venture ... it is because you realize you can't not plant one. Votes: 0

We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war. Votes: 0

Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody.""You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting. Votes: 0

Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness. Votes: 0

The course was more plodding than heroic. I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps. Votes: 0

May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism. Votes: 0

Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character. Votes: 0

Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless Votes: 0

She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons. Votes: 0

Christ's invitation to the priesthood is an invitation to a way of life that is athletic in its intensity and heroic in its form. Votes: 0

A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage. Votes: 0

Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation. Votes: 0

I would love to do something like 'Beverly Hills Cop'. I'd get to be funny and cool and heroic all in the same breath. Votes: 0

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little. Votes: 0

In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. Votes: 0

A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth. Votes: 0

The quality of films out there depends on how much responsibility we're willing to take. I try to play women who are positive and heroic. Votes: 0

My daughter, there are times of moral danger when the hardest virtuous resolution to form is flight, and when the most heroic bravery is flight. Votes: 0

A lack of common sense usually ends in some heroic feat, much like the soldier who dives onto the grenade so that others may live. Votes: 0

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned. Votes: 0

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds. Votes: 0

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed. Votes: 0

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time. Votes: 0

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself. Votes: 0

Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary." (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement. Votes: 0

No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics. Votes: 0

Don't scale because you think there's a pot of gold over that rainbow. Scale because you're ready and eager to do heroic work, every day, forever. Votes: 0

We may never know why Joe Ellis fabricated a heroic past. But we know that the life he embellished has deeply diminished the life he'd earned. Votes: 0

I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times. Votes: 0

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game. Votes: 0

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors. Votes: 0

If we cannot come together to pause, to respect our dead and the heroic lives of meaning they led, then ours is truly a civilization lost. Votes: 0

He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself. Votes: 0

Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men. Votes: 0

I hope that I'm not the type of person who, standing at the doorway to hell, strikes a heroic pose and then starts frowning with indecision. Votes: 0

No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John. Votes: 0

There were no formerly heroic times, and there was no formerly pure generation. There is no one here but us chickens, and so it has always been. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic. Votes: 0

My father was this big, tough guy, almost heroic in proportion to me as a child. It was only later that I saw how fearful he was. Votes: 0

I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it. Votes: 0

Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. Votes: 0

I would love for people to think that I am as quick, clever, smart and heroic as the characters that I write, but those characters are characters. Votes: 0

I think for some reason we're conditioned in movies that the protagonist must be heroic or redeemable in some way, whereas in theater, that's not a necessary. Votes: 0

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help. Votes: 0

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism. Votes: 0

Damn, Claire. Warn a guy before you do a face-plant on the floor next time. I could have looked all heroic and caught you or something -Shane Votes: 0

I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books. Votes: 0

The mythical America?that marvellous, heroic, sentimental landwas an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer's leap over the rude facts at your feet. Votes: 0

the highest point a man can attain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! Votes: 0

I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction. Votes: 0

Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species. Votes: 0

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours. Votes: 0

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Votes: 0

Every fanatic or enemy of virtue is not at liberty to misrepresent the greatest geniuses and most heroic defenders of all that is valuable in this mortal world. Votes: 0

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons. Votes: 0

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine. Votes: 0

I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun. Votes: 0

Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter. Votes: 0

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic. Votes: 0

I love characters who are clever and smart, and you have to run to catch up with. I think there's something very appealing and rather heroic in that. Votes: 0

Sam's probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self," Caine said. "I can't let that boy save the world all alone. I'd never live it down. Votes: 0

As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music. Votes: 0

The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor. Votes: 0

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired. Votes: 0

Surely tis by faith we are upheld thro such trials-justice will be meted in time to those who fill soft places and malign men who perform heroic duties Votes: 0

I think of few heroic actions, which cannot be traced to the artistical impulse. He who does great deeds, does them from his innate sensitiveness to moral beauty. Votes: 0

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words. Votes: 0

The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue. Votes: 0

Bad guys are complicated characters. It's always fun to play them. You get away with a lot more. You don't have a heroic code you have to live by. Votes: 0

Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise. Votes: 0

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age. Votes: 0

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest. Votes: 0

We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time. Votes: 0

There's nothing more noble than a father and mother making an opportunity for their child, knowing that their life is gonna be hard. There's something incredibly heroic about that. Votes: 0

In my fantasies, I was always caught up in heroic struggles, and I saw myself saving lives, sacrificing myself for others. I had far loftier ambitions than mere romance. Votes: 0

I suppose all fictional characters, especially in adventure or heroic fiction, at the end of the day are our dreams about ourselves. And sometimes they can be really revealing. Votes: 0

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great. Votes: 0

Virtue is but heroic bravery, to do the thing thought to be true, in spite of all enemies of flesh or spirit, in despite of all temptations or menaces. Votes: 0

His was the strong soul, gentle, but tempered with fire, fervent, heroic and good, the helper and friend of mankind. It is such as he who make progress possible. Votes: 0

Now i'd like to tell u i did something heroic like stand up against a raging team of fire-breathing horses with only my sword the truth is i ran. Votes: 0

She and Lisa always called that kind of snow heroic, because a person could do no wrong in it. Everyone skied like a hero in that kind of snow. Votes: 0

True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action. Votes: 0

My sonnet asserts that the sonnet still lives. My epic, should such fortune befall me, asserts that the heroic narrative is not lost - that it is born again. Votes: 0

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 pair of lovely blue eyes. Votes: 0

The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does. Votes: 0

My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic. Votes: 0

What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. Votes: 0

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. Votes: 0

I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera. Votes: 0

Some men make gain a fountain, whence proceeds A stream of liberal and heroic deeds; The swell of pity, not to be confined Within the scanty limits of the mind. Votes: 0

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing. Votes: 0

Playing big, heroic characters with heart is always a lot of fun. I enjoy making movies like that, and a lot of people love to live vicariously through those characters. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill aroused this nation in heroic fashion to save civilisation in World War Two. We have everything we need except political will, but political will is a renewable resource. Votes: 0

We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day. Votes: 0

Lust is an immoderate wantonness of the flesh, a sweet poison, a cruel pestilence; a pernicious poison, which weakeneth the body of man, and effeminateth the strength of the heroic mind. Votes: 0

Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will. Votes: 0

What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness. Votes: 0

Our debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices. Votes: 0

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth. Votes: 0

You don't encounter anyone who is not hero or villain of their own story. If it's man vs. self, you have to explore the ways each character is villainous and heroic. Votes: 0

Explore your mind, discover yourself, then give the best that is in you to your age and to your world. There are heroic possibilities waiting to be discovered in every person Votes: 0

To be a leader in this new economy, you have to love risk-which means patterning your life on the heroic, not on the strategic. Acting boldly is better than acting knowingly. Votes: 0

I like the tradition of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances and how they react to events which force them to be heroic in a way that is not in their natures. Votes: 0

I'm not great at fear. I made the least frightening vampire show ever on TV. I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh, and that's pretty much it. Votes: 0

Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking. Votes: 0

Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of being as heroic as the occasion demanded. Votes: 0

This obsession with leadership... It's not neutral; it's American, this idea of the heroic leader who comes in on a white horse to save the day. I think it's killing American companies. Votes: 0

Remarkable. . . . Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt. Votes: 0

life is a tragic mystery. We are pierced and driven by laws we only half understand, we find that the lesson we learn again and again is that of accepting heroic helplessness. Votes: 0

I've always felt that the human-centered approach to computer science leads to more interesting, more exotic, more wild, and more heroic adventures than the machine-supremacy approach, where information is the highest goal. Votes: 0

If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic. Votes: 0

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live. Votes: 0

Whereas in a memory you edit things out and sort of restructure the things to seem a little bit more heroic, or to focus on particular aspects that magnify or reduce certain things. Votes: 0

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker. Votes: 0

As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume. Votes: 0

How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian. Votes: 0

I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to include more women in their work, especially historic works. Votes: 0

Leaving a place, a person or a country silently and without any notice is a heroic and a noble way of teaching the importance of your presence to those who ignore your existence! Votes: 0

HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower. Votes: 0

Necessity does everything well. In our condition of universal dependence, it seems heroic to let the petitioner be the judge of his necessity, and to give all that is asked, though at great inconvenience. Votes: 0

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines. Votes: 0

Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy. Votes: 0

Thanks to the heroic sons and daughters of this country, who have paid sacrifices, we have been able to score a number of victories which are encouraging the nation-building process we are engaged in. Votes: 0

The past is only so heroic as we see it. It is the canvas on which our idea of heroism is painted, and so, in one sense, the dim prospectus of our future field. Votes: 0

I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do. Votes: 0

Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be. Votes: 0

A thirsty ambition for truth and virtue, and a frenzy to conquer all lies and vices which are not recognized as such nor desire to be; herein consists the heroic spirit of the philosopher. Votes: 0

Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic. Votes: 0

I'm not building each one character around one metaphor, so much as trying to build a heroic archetype that can be used to express the kind of metaphors that I find in each story. Votes: 0

We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners. Votes: 0

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War. Votes: 0

Let us not be too much acquainted. I would have a man enter his house through a hall filled with heroic and sacred sculptures, that he might not want the hint of tranquillity and self-poise. Votes: 0

How much we forgive to those who yield us the rare spectacle of heroic manners! We will pardon them the want of books, or arts, and even of gentler virtues. How tenaciously we remember them! Votes: 0

Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen and cheered, or booed. And then becomes a statistic. Votes: 0

All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that were once beautiful because alive and are now false because dead. Votes: 0

A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The 1960s was a heroic age in the history of the art of communication - the audacious movers and shakers of those times bear no resemblance to the cast of characters in 'Mad Men.' Votes: 0

Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man. Votes: 0