Top 1200 Heroic Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories.

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

The script of 'Shaapit' was such that the leading man couldn't be shown indulging into anything heroic.

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.

There's an idea of the Plains as the middle of nowhere, something to be contemptuous of. But it's really a heroic place.

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

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

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

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.

I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

He who does wrong does wrong against himself. He who acts unjustly acts unjustly to himself, because he makes himself bad.

In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

I like characters who aren't typically heroic and come to some sort of epiphany about themselves.

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

Apostolic and missionary fruitfulness is not principally due to programmes and pastoral methods that are cleverly drawn up and "efficient", but is the result of the community's constant prayer (cf. "Evangelii Nuntiandi," 75). Moreover, for the mission to be effective, communities must be united, that is, they must be "of one heart and soul" (cf. Acts 4:32), and they must be ready to witness to the love and joy that the Holy Spirit instils in the hearts of the faithful (cf. Acts 4:32).

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

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

To hallow'd duty Here with a loyal and heroic heart, Bind we our lives.

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls.

It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do.

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

All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.

There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.

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

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

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

Traveling all over the country and all over the world, I think you've got a lot of pop acts and a lot of rock acts that are making a point of traveling to different places and making people aware of their music and their shows and the whole deal and I think country music has always sort of stayed, for the most part, in the states.

People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.

Evolutionary theory, properly understood, does not conflict with the idea that God occasionally intervenes in nature - for example, by once or twice causing a beneficial mutation to occur. Biologists have not detected any such interventions despite the data and theory they have assembled about mutation. However, I think it is a mistake to expect biological experiments to be able to detect such one-off acts of divine intervention, especially if those acts occurred in the distant past. Science isn't in that line of work.

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

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

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

But whoso is heroic will always find crises to try his edge.

The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

All good American literature is always interested in people who are ambiguously heroic, like Gatsby.

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

The Mahabharata might have been a great and heroic battle, but there are no winners. The losers, of course, lose.

Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

But there are still only certain film genres where a woman can stand out, be heroic, be the centerpiece.

What passes for identity in America is a series of myths about one's heroic ancestors.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The only way to abolish war is to make peace seem heroic.

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.

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them.

All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.

I'm pretty much good at heroic narratives and making people laugh.

Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

There's always something heroic and romantic about taking a stand against the powers that be.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Over the course of my creative life, I've trafficked in broken, heroic mothers.

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

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events

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

I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.