Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. Votes: 4
Benjamin DisraeliHeroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power. Votes: 3
Sarah Knowles BoltonSome spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.... Votes: 3
Robert FrostWe relish news of our heroes, forgetting that we are extraordinary to somebody too. Votes: 2
Helen HayesI think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb. Votes: 2
Robert Downey, Jr.Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. Votes: 2
C. S. LewisThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool. Votes: 2
Nathaniel HawthorneAnyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time. Votes: 2
Luigi PirandelloFreedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve. Votes: 0
Richard G. ScottWhat makes us heroic?--Confronting simultaneously our supreme suffering and our supreme hope. Votes: 0
Friedrich NietzschePeople try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. Votes: 0
Gene CernanPeople try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings. Votes: 0
Eugene CernanInaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind. Votes: 0
Ralph Waldo EmersonPhotography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world. Votes: 0
Susan SontagWe bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy. Votes: 0
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives. Votes: 0
Frances Sargent OsgoodPeople have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too. Votes: 0
Ryan ReynoldsThe Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote. Votes: 0
Edgar DegasHeroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome. Votes: 0
Margaret AtwoodThe heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet. Votes: 0
Benjamin CardozoNo less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages. Votes: 0
Aldous HuxleyIn a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying. Votes: 0
Roswell Dwight HitchcockWhat passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors. Votes: 0
James A. BaldwinTruth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics. Votes: 0
Samuel ButlerI think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic. Votes: 0
Michael EmersonHeroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost. Votes: 0
Nassim Nicholas TalebA heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Votes: 0
Ezra PoundAll good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby. Votes: 0
John GreenDying in the line of duty is heroic, but dying while unemployed is just stupid. Votes: 0
Tsugumi OhbaIt is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals Votes: 0
Angela DavisIn Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy. Votes: 0
Leland RykenA people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history. Votes: 0
John Brown GordonIn proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine. Votes: 0
William Lloyd GarrisonA heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing. Votes: 0
Warren EysterThe stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential. Votes: 0
Jonah SachsThe men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives. Votes: 0
Leonard RavenhillIt did seem hard to be doing something heroic while everyone was too busy to notice. Votes: 0
Frances HardingeIf your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. Votes: 0
Nicolas Boileau-DespreauxIf there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale Votes: 0
John Kenneth GalbraithI am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be. Votes: 0
Warren G. BennisA happy life is imposÂsiÂble; the best that a man can attain is a heroic life. Votes: 0
Arthur SchopenhauerHe found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results. Votes: 0
W. Somerset MaughamThe heroic man does not pose; he leaves that for the man who wishes to be thought heroic. Votes: 0
Elbert HubbardI never had the opportunity to play a Latino character that is seen in a heroic, smart way. Votes: 0
Ray Santiagotragedy in the theater opens our eyes so that we can discover and appreciate the heroic in reality. Votes: 0
Jose Ortega y GassetThere is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man. Votes: 0
Thomas CarlyleThe bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that. Votes: 0
Sheryl CrowThey, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am. Votes: 0
Hugh LaurieDo one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore. Votes: 0
Bob GoffI think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do. Votes: 0
David DuchovnyIt is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward. Votes: 0
Mary Roberts RinehartThe function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself. Votes: 0
Joseph CampbellSome days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day. Votes: 2 Edward Albert
According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking. Votes: 3 Jonathan Stroud