Heroic Quotes

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. (Harriet Beecher Stowe)
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something which you have to be all the time. Which isn't easy. View quote
Luigi Pirandello
A nice war is a war where everybody who is heroic is a hero, and everybody more or less is a hero in a nice war. Now this war is not at all a nice war. View quote
Gertrude Stein
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. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. View quote
Walter Scott
This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. View quote
Philip K. Dick
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic. View quote
George Carlin
He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land. A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone. (Edmund Burke)
The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe! View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. View quote
Joseph Campbell
The most heroic word in all languages is REVOLUTION. View quote
Eugene V. Debs
Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. View quote
Thomas Merton
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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. View quote
Charlton Heston
In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding. View quote
Kurt Masur
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. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The element of heroic maleness had always been present in the concept of the artist as one who rides the winged horse above the clouds beyond the sight of lesser men, a concept seldom applied to those who worked with colours until the nineteenth century. When the inevitable question is asked, "Why are there no great women artists?" it is this dimension of art that is implied. The askers know little of art, but they know the seven wonders of the painting world. View quote
Germaine Greer
Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army! (Kim Jong-il)
I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day. View quote
Kevin Costner
Sometimes I see myself reflected too closely in other men for comfort, and then I have an enormous wish to believe in the saints, in heroic virtue. View quote
Graham Greene
In the action business, when you don't want to say you ran like a mouse, you call it 'taking cover.' It's more heroic. View quote
Jim Butcher
I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic. View quote
Thomas Carlyle