Heroic Act Quotes

#1. A poem is a heroic act of integration that binds into rough harmony the chorus of forces within and outside the soul. A poem struggles to orchestrate, prioritize, cohere, and coordinate these potentially shattering forces.

Tony Hoagland

#2. Eating industrial meat takes an almost heroic act of not knowing or,

Michael Pollan

#3. Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#4. One heroic act doesn't make a man trustworthy. What if he decides to turn his blade on you?

Marie Lu

#5. To die in a battle is often referred to as a heroic act, but I will never understand that. What glory is there in bleeding to death in agony on the battlefield? I have no intention of dying at the hands of my enemy.

Peter Koevari

#6. Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

Edward Albert

#7. We are always in awe of what the donors have done in terms of providing of themselves to the recipients. It really is a heroic act because people take on themselves not only a risk of death but also pain-and-suffering in order for their loved one to get the benefit of the liver transplant.

John Roberts

#8. A heroic act is not always followed by glory and parades and forever freedom," she said. "It's often small, disregarded, or forgotten. But it matters.

Shannon A. Thompson

#9. Every heroic act measures itself by its contempt of some external good. But it finds its own success at last, and then the prudent also extol.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#10. READ, READ, KEEP READING. UNTIL YOU KICK THE BUCKET.

Onwukwe Chimdinma

#11. I've been online long enough to know if I don't like the first results I get, I go look for more.

Dave DeBronkart

#12. I've always had to force myself to make friends and speak to people. My parents were quiet, and it took me a while to get used to the fact that people talk about their feelings, their problems.

Helen Hunt

#13. There are as many ways of loving as there are people, and that wildflower variety is the great beauty of this dimension of existence.

Rumi

#14. Because it is a radical act of freedom, creative achievement is a heroic process that requires, in all its permutations, specific strengths of character.

Robert Grudin

#15. If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.

Nicholas Meyer

#16. The night is a tunnel ... a hole into tomorrow.

Frank Herbert

#17. During Xtha-cka Zhi-ga The-the, the Killer of Flowers Moon. I will wade across the river of the blackfish, the otter, the beaver. I will climb the bank where the willow never dies.

David Grann

#18. My mom gave me a good piece of advice. She said never marry a man thinking you can change him, and I think that starts from your first date when you're in the seventh grade onwards. Women are fixers so we have to just not fix. Don't fix.

Jennifer Garner

#19. BJP is doing "gathbandhan". Congress is doing "brashtbandhan" and the criminals are doing "lathbandhan". Our politics is about coalitions. Every coalition where the BJP is part of as leaders, has been successful.

Narendra Modi

#20. The simple act of caring is heroic.

Edward Albert

#21. The true "LOVE FOR HUMANITY" is an act of Heroic Genius.

Henry Johnson Jr

#22. Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

Ayn Rand

#23. It seemed to us philosophically self-evident that suicide was every free person's right: a logical act when faced with illness or senility; a heroic one when faced with torture or the avoidable deaths of others; a glamourous one in the fury of dissappointed love (see: Great Literature).

Julian Barnes

#24. International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

Samantha Power

#25. Are they dead that yet speak louder than we can speak, and a more universal language? Are they dead that yet act? Are they dead that yet move upon society and inspire the people with nobler motives and more heroic patriotism?

Henry Ward Beecher

#26. HYPOTHESES: Evil is boring. Cynicism is idiotic. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Receptivity is a superpower.

Rob Brezsny

#27. As a child, I was always drawn to heroic characters. I decided I wanted to act when I realised that Superman and all those gangsters and Indians were just real people in costume.

Orlando Bloom

#28. Heaven absolves all crimes committed to gain a throne Once Heaven gives it to us.

Pierre Corneille

#29. Evil is boring. Cynicism is pointless. Fear is a bad habit. Despair is lazy. Hopelessness is self-indulgent. On the other hand: Joy is fascinating. Love is an act of heroic genius. Pleasure is our birthright. Chronic ecstasy is a learnable skill.

Rob Brezsny