Heroic Quotes
If there's reason for hope, it lies in man's occasional binges of cooperation. To save our planet, we'll need that kind of heroic effort, in which all types of people join forces for the common good
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.
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
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.
I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty and encourages you to live life more courageously and genuinely.
The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
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.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
There is nothing man desires more than a heroic life: there is nothing less common to men than heroism.
The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!
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.
Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.
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.
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.
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.
If I programmed my own TV network, it would air good news! Just positive stories. Heroic stories. Cute puppy dogs doin' stuff.
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.
Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
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.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
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.
The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure-- fearlessness and achievement.
In proportion as we perceive and embrace the truth do we become just, heroic, magnanimous, divine.
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Of all man's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than the love in him. Everything else accepts defeat and dies, but love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
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.
Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe
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.
In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
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.
I think people respond to villains because people in general are more villainous than heroic.
A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths
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.
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
