Top 1200 Heroic Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

In all this world, I pray thee, who Is virtuous, heroic, true?

Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

I think honesty is the most heroic quality one can aspire to.

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

It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

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

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

These men, in teaching us how to die, have at the same time taught us how to live. If this man's acts and words do not create a revival, it will be the severest possible satire on the acts and words that do. It is the best news that America has ever heard.... How many a man who was lately contemplating suicide has now something to live for!

It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

I've always felt like we're all human beings and we're all basically given the tools to make whatever choices we want to make. How we treat other people. How we treat ourselves. Just the whole philosophy of that and the philosophical logic of that is that we're all capable of great acts of evil, and we're all capable of great acts of good.

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

It is not given to us to know which acts or by whom, will cause the critical mass to tip toward an enduring good. What's needed for dramatic change is an accumulation of acts, adding, adding to, adding more, continuing. We know that it does not take 'everyone on Earth' to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give up during the first, second, or hundredth gale.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.

In the world of poker, it's not heroic to try to function on a couple hours of sleep.

Kind thoughts increase the flow of vital energy into your body and mind. Do kind acts now. Do not procrastinate. Kindness is like a healing balm. It soothes suffering... Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Even so, little acts of kindness make an ocean of goodwill.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

A thought has no size in the physical sense but is vast as compared to the physical acts and objects into which it is later precipitated. The power of a thought is enormous and superior to all the successive physical acts, objects, and events that body forth its energy. A thought often endures for a time much greater than the whole life of the man who thought it.

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

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

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.

I care little in the existence of a heaven or hell; self respect does not allow me to guide my acts with an eye toward heavenly salvation or hellish punishment. I pursue the good in life because it is beautiful and attracts me; and shun the bad because it is ugly and repulsive. All our acts should originate from the spring of unselfish love, whether there be a continuation after death or not.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

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

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

Glory to the heroic soldiers of the Korean People's Army!

The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subject to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

Give me a character that has an heroic quality, and I'll go there.

Why pray if we cannot change God? ...is that why we pray? To change omniscient Love? Isn't it rather to learn what it is and to fulfill it? Not to change it by our acts, but to change our acts by it.

The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

Vices are those acts by which a man harms himself or his property. Crimes are those acts by which one man harms the person or property of another.

My view is that homosexual acts, not homosexuality, but homosexual acts are wrong. They’re intrinsically wrong. And I think in a natural law based country it’s appropriate to have policies that reflect that They don’t comport with natural law. I happen to think that it represents (to put it politely; I need my thesaurus to be polite) behavior that is not healthy to an individual and in aggregate is not healthy to society.

Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

The language of the heroic is something that has evolved over time.

I think survival, with agency intact, is heroic for anyone or anything.

The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

I am a big believer in the power of journalism; it's a heroic pursuit.

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

He alone is great Who by a life heroic conquers fate.

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

Photography is a kind of overstatement, a heroic copulation with the material world.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

You can't make accommodations in crucial situations and be heroic.

When you're younger, you're going to be cast as the heroic, earnest leading man.

I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.

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