Heroic Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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.

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

Americans admire success. Englishmen admire heroic failure

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

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.

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

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.

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

The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

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

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

I was very pleased with your kind letter. Until now I never dreamed of being something like a hero. But since you've given me the nomination I feel that I am one.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

People aren't universally heroic.

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

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

Very few of my characters are totally heroic or totally villainous.

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.

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.

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

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something.

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

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].