Best Heroic Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock.

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 the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.

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

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes.

Courage is the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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.

The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they’re up, to not have a drink. It’s like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.

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

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.

The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.

Lying can never save us from another lie.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning – in other words, of absurdity – the more energetically meaning is sought.

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.

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals, then the brigadiers, then a bit of a gap and the colonels and wing commanders and passed-over majors, then a steady trickle of captains and lieutenants. As they get older and rarer, so the soldiers are mythologised and grow ever more heroic, until finally drummer boys and under-age privates are venerated and laurelled with honours like ancient field marshals. There is something touching about that.

When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact, until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

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.

Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

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.

The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.

I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love – everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It’s about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.