Top 1200 Heroic Deeds Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of evil; as a single drop of water fills a bucket, so do small deeds of good.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

A heroic nature is very Greek.

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

The simple act of caring is heroic.

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

Morning brings back the heroic ages.

One is not low because of birth nor does birth make one holy. Deeds alone make one low, deeds alone make one holy.

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

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.

All humans are dead except those who have knowledge; and all those who have knowledge are asleep, except those who do good deeds; and those who do good deeds are deceived, except those who are sincere; and those who are sincere are always in a state of worry.

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

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

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

We, her children, are heroic, dersperate.

The truth is always more heroic than the hype.

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

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

The only training for the heroic is the mundane.

Another nation is made out to be utterly depraved and fiendish, while one's own nation stands for everything that is good and noble. Every action of the enemy is judged by one standard - every action of oneself by another. Even good deeds by the enemy are considered a sign of particular devilishness, meant to deceive us and the world, while our bad deeds are necessary and justified by our noble goals, which they serve.

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

People aren't universally heroic.

There are three levels of service. The highest level is that of one who performs good deeds the whole day and yet feels that he has not acheived anything. The second level is someone who, though he has not done anything, knows that he has not corrected anything in this world. This is good, and there is hope for him that he might correct his ways. However, someone who is righteous in his own eyes deceived himself all his life; his good deeds will be lost.

Having music in the schools, having art in the schools, having art in your life, should not be heroic. It should be every day. Having things we've paid for years ago and that we depend on kept up - our schools, our political institutions - should not be a heroic act. It should be part of our daily citizenship. The idea that we had to do this incredibly exhausting, two-year-long, very expensive, labor intensive, community-based action, is, one the one hand unbelievably great, and, on the other hand, really depressing.

Behold how all those people are merchants who shun great sins and would like to be good and do good deeds in God's honour, such as fasts, vigils, prayers, and similar good deeds of all kinds. They do all these things so that our Lord may give them something, or so that God may do something dear to them. All these people are merchants.

School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

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

I grew up reading books about heroic collies.

To learn to die is an heroic work.

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.

We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless? And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the center of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?

There appears to exist a greater desire to live long than to live well! Measure by man's desires, he cannot live long enough; measure by his good deeds, and he has not lived long enough; measure by his evil deeds, and he has lived too long.

Out of our beliefs are born deeds; out of our deeds we form habits; out of our habits grows our character; and on our character we build our destiny.

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

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

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

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

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

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

There's many heroic underappreciated investigative journalists.

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

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

As for the various religions, there's no doubt that they are very meaningful to adherents, and allow them to delude themselves into thinking there is some meaning to their lives beyond what we agree is the case. I'd never try to talk them out of the delusions, which are necessary for them to live a life that makes some sense to them. These beliefs can provide a framework for deeds that are noble or savage, and anywhere in between, and there's every reason to focus attention on the deeds and the background for them, to the extent that we can grasp it.

What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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

Perhaps one cannot, what is more one must not, understand what happened, because to understand [the Holocaust] is almost to justify...no normal human being will ever be able to identify with Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels, Eichmann, and endless others. This dismays us, and at the same time gives us a sense of relief, because perhaps it is desirable that their words (and also, unfortunately, their deeds) cannot be comprehensible to us. They are non-human words and deeds, really counter-human.

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