Browsing Topic Best Heroic Quotes

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

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.

The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

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.

Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

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

Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don’t, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

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

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.

The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember… There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Great men need to be lifted upon the shoulders of the whole world, in order to conceive their great ideas or perform their great deeds. That is, there must be an atmosphere of greatness round about them. A hero cannot be a hero unless in an heroic world.

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.

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.

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

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.