Heroic Quotes
How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
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.
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.
They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.
Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother’s elder brother.
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.
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.
For there is one thing we must never forget... the majority can never replace the man. And no more than a hundred empty heads make one wise man will an heroic decision arise from a hundred cowards.
The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.
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.
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.
There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.
We must love men more than things, and I admire and weep more for the soldiers than for the churches which were only the recording of an heroic gesture which today is reenacted at every moment.
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.
In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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.
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.
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.
Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.
There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
The bands that wrote the big, heroic rock songs - I really wanted to make a record like that.
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.
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
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.
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.
If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires.
Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.
Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.
Plants respond far better to moderate but consistent care than they do to occasional bouts of heroic intervention.
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.
The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.
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.
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.
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.
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.
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
