Top 100 Heroic Quotes
#1. The conquest of fear yields the courage of life. That is the cardinal initiation of every heroic adventure
fearlessness and achievement.
Joseph Campbell
#2. Heroic leaders often made mistakes ... mistakes that were amplified by the number of followers who were held in thrall by charisma. (Introduction to Dune Messiah)
Brian Herbert
#3. A heroic, losing battle! I'm tired of brave men who die. There's nothing pretty about losing.
Warren Eyster
#4. Keep out of this," Lucian said. "I'm not smiting anybody."
"You're showing mercy." Catch-a-Tick nodded. "That's heroic, too. But not as good as smiting.
Lloyd Alexander
#5. She refused to think of Neil, brave and quiet, whose reward for a heroic rescue was to be slowly devoured by strange cave balloons.
Brandon Mull
#6. N equally basic passion of mine ab initio was for myth (not allegory!) and for fairy-story, and above all for heroic legend on the brink of fairy-tale and history, of which there is far too little in the world (accessible to me) for my appetite ...
J.R.R. Tolkien
#7. The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great.
Victor Hugo
#8. Majorian presents the welcome discovery of a great and heroic character, such as sometimes arise, in a degenerate age, to vindicate the honor of the human species.
Edward Gibbon
#9. All my artistic response comes from American things, and I guess I've always had a weakness for heroic imagery.
Edward Ruscha
#10. a statement by Bertrand Russell ... embodies the tone of heroic denunciation that you can muster only if you have drunk deeply from the cup of your own oracular majesty
David Brooks
#11. You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only too human. But there just aren't many great figures around now, so the tragic mechanisms can't work.
Martin Amis
#12. He plants his feet stubbornly, adopting what he must think is an heroic post. He's just begging for a pigeon to fly by and relieve itself.
Libba Bray
#13. I don't really think of Odo as a heroic lead, but that's nice if you do.
Rene Auberjonois
#14. The most heroic thing you can do is tell someone that you love them.
Jacques Audiard
#15. I find it very difficult to let a friend or beloved go into that country of no return. I answer the heroic question, "Death, where is thy sting?" with "It is here in my heart, and my mind, and my memories.
Maya Angelou
#16. You can't counter a heroic impulse with a mundane and bourgeois response. You can counter it only with a more compelling heroic vision.
David Brooks
#17. People will say it's sad that she leaves a lesser scar, that fewer remember her, that she was loved deeply but not widely. But it's not sad, Van Houten. It's triumphant. It's heroic. Isn't that the real heroism? Like the doctors say: First, do no harm.
John Green
#18. No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.
Jurgen Moltmann
#19. Heracles' heroic world and Deianeira's warmth and tenderness are mutually exclusive. Sophocles seeks not to vindicate the one against the other, but to dramatize the tragedy of their irreconcilability and their mutual destructiveness.
Charles Segal
#20. Yep, said Arthur. Somehow yep seemed the most positive thing he could say. Stronger than yeah and more heroic than yes. He hoped he could live up to it.
Garth Nix
#21. I'm more grateful than ever that we have such brave and heroic people in this country who put their lives on the line every day to make me safe.
Stacey Ballis
#22. The ancients have left us model heroic poems in which the heroes furnish the whole interest of the story, and we are still unable to accustom ourselves to the fact that for our epoch histories of that kind are meaningless.
Leo Tolstoy
#23. Of course, as a model for my magician Strange is far from perfect
he lacks the true heroic nature; for that I shall be obliged to put in something of myself.
Susanna Clarke
#24. There are so many stories about boys becoming heroes, learning their powers and becoming incredibly heroic. There have to be those stories for girls, too.
Cassandra Clare
#25. Alfred Hitchcock, Isaac Newton, Elvis Presley, Captain Bligh, they're heroic or pathetic depending on which book you buy.
Bob Seger
#26. For the myths of the East, the myths of the West, the myths of men, and the myths of women - these have so saturated our consciousness that truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort.
David Henry Hwang
#27. I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand, it's good to have another job. It gives you something to do.
Tom Paulin
#28. At all costs the true world of childhood must prevail, must be restored; that world whose momentous, heroic, mysterious quality is fed on airy nothings, whose substance is so ill-fitted to withstand the brutal touch of adult inquisition.
Jean Cocteau
#29. Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
#30. Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth ...
Robert Frost
#31. Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.
Susan Sontag
#32. Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex things. They just didn't suit my taste, so I thought, 'OK, I have to be brave enough to say no.' And for a while, that hurt me immeasurably in the Hollywood world.
Josh Hartnett
#33. Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
Socrates
#34. And this was history now: heroic protest, concerted rebellion, execution of the tyrant, a new social order. It ran like a clear stream--useless to require it to resemble the viscous substance of truth.
Unsworth
#35. The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
Edward Abbey
#36. A people without the memories of heroic suffering and sacrifices are a people without a history.
John Brown Gordon
#37. Sometimes the most heroic action you can take looks a lot like inaction to the rest of the world. Sometimes the hardest, longest walk is the one the white-hat takes offstage.
Karen Marie Moning
#38. In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes.
Adelbert Von Chamisso
#39. 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.
Kevin Costner
#40. I used to think this heroic: my sturdy, stable dad, capable of anything. But now I realize that he's just drawn to dying, helpless things. The unsaveables.
Like Mom.
Maybe, like me.
Kate Ellison
#41. Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
Margaret Atwood
#42. Games are a way of escaping reality - that's why you need heroic factor.
Hideo Kojima
#43. People try to typecast astronauts as heroic and superhuman. We're only human beings.
Eugene Cernan
#44. Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death!
Varric Tethras
#45. Those who ran away are now outside the distant perimeter wall of the airport. Now they're outside the wall and the heroic Republican Guard is now in control of the whole area of Saddam International Airport. So where are those villainous louts, those mercenaries?
Mohammed Saeed Al-Sahaf
#46. Youth's scorn and its revolt against the established order, youth's readiness for everything that is heroic, whether it is self-sacrifice or crime, its fiery seriousness and its unsteadiness - all this is nothing but its fluttering attempts to fly.
Robert Musil
#47. A heroic person walks at his ease through and out of that custom or precedent or authority that suits him not.
Walt Whitman
#48. I should mention that all of the above explorers were unqualified failures. Not coincidentally, they were also all British. Americans admire success. Englishman admire heroic failure. Given a choice
at least in my reading
I'm un-American enough to take quixotry over efficiency any day.
Anne Fadiman
#49. In underground music, there seems to be this real inability for people to express themselves in any kind of heroic or mythological way. There's this idea that we're all normal joes, and that creating a persona onstage or having schtick is somehow false and misleading and evil.
Ian Svenonius
#50. Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
Samuel Butler
#51. I don't understand why women get upset when you compare them to one of the monkeys from Planet of the Apes, even one of the heroic ones, like Dr. Zera.
David James
#52. He lives out in Orchard Park. I mean, to be able to sit on the bench so patiently, for whatever part, and to be able to get up and do something, with such heroic competencies would be great.
Robert Creeley
#54. We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.
David McMurtrie Gregg
#55. Piper didn't dare look - not while she was running with a dagger in her hand. She could just see herself tripping and stabbing herself in the nose. That would be super heroic.
Rick Riordan
#56. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone!
Edmund Burke
#57. The mark of the true hero is that the most heroic of his deeds is done in secret. We never hear of it. And yet somehow, my friends, we know. - Father Tyler's Collected Sermons, FROM THE ARVATH ARCHIVE
Erika Johansen
#58. What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#59. Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without he heroic mind.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#60. Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.
Jaclyn Dolamore
#61. The crisis of modern society is precisely that the youth no longer feel heroic in the plan for action that their culture has set up. They don't believe it is empirically true to the problems of their lives and times.
Ernest Becker
#62. Your whole life should be lived as a heroic deed
Leo Tolstoy
#63. Remarkable ... Moskos manages to capture a world that most people know only through the distorting prism of television and film, where police officers are usually portrayed as quixotically heroic or contemptibly corrupt.
Daniel Horan
#64. The Dance instills in you something that sets you apart. Something heroic and remote.
Edgar Degas
#65. In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#66. Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic.
Julie Burchill
#67. Commonplace though it may appear, this doing of one's duty embodies the highest ideal of life and character. There may be nothing heroic about it; but the common lot of men is not heroic.
Samuel Smiles
#68. Consequently, the value and importance of the monarchic idea cannot reside in the person of the monarch himself except if Heaven decides to lay the crown on the brow of the heroic genius like Frederick the Great or a wise character like William I.
Adolf Hitler
#70. Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#72. Avoid the Holy Grail, the heroic journeys, the pursuit of a legend
that is not the life of the bookaneer, who must keep his eyes on the ground while other book people live by dreaming.
Matthew Pearl
#73. I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.
Jodie Foster
#74. You can't sing Beethoven from the neck up --- you'll bleed! Beethoven is not precious. He's prodigal as hell. He tramples all over nicety. He's ugly, heroic; he roars, he lusts after beauty, he rages after nobility. Be ye not temperate!
Robert Shaw
#75. 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.
Thomas Merton
#76. According to some, heroic deaths are admirable things. I've never been convinced by this argument, mainly because, no matter how cool, stylish, composed, unflappable, manly, or defiant you are, at the end of the day you're also dead. Which is a little too permanent for my liking.
Jonathan Stroud
#77. 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
#79. There is something heroic, inexplicable, and otherworldly in every love story.
Erin McCahan
#80. Catwoman had transgressed the patriarchal social order, and because of it had to be a crook, but Wonder Woman was establishing a new matriarchal social order and she was its heroic model.
Tim Hanley
#81. The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.
Leonard Ravenhill
#82. Humanity needs heroic leadership from those who see all life as precious.
Bryant McGill
#83. If there was anything obviously heroic about medieval surgery, it was the patient.
David C. Lindberg
#84. 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.
Jim Butcher
#85. A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
Allan Pease
#86. What the writers do, and we hopefully can bring to life, is that they present characters who, on the surface, aren't always heroic and their acts aren't always devoid of selfishness.
Charlie Cox
#89. A heroic moral victory for the New York Mets,. It may be the only kind of victory we're achieving this season, but he set a good example for professional athletes and the rest of us.
David Brooks
#90. The heroic example of other days is in great part the source of the courage of each generation; and men walk up composedly to the most perilous enterprises, beckoned onward by the shades of the brave that were.
Arthur Helps
#91. sanctifying our ordinary everyday actions, making our daily prose into heroic verse."4
Pilar Urbano
#92. It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood.
Theodore Roosevelt
#93. The determination in your heroic effort
Will permeate your mind and heart
Even after your success or failure
Is long forgotten.
Sri Chinmoy
#94. The most fulfilling romance is an heroic relationship with yourself. You live and die by your own imagination.
Dean Cavanagh
#95. Emily Dickinson has haunted my life - her poems, her persona, all the tales about her solitude. Ever since I discovered her in the seventh grade, I've had a crush on that spinster in white, who had such a heroic and startling inner landscape of her own.
Jerome Charyn
#96. I think that we all do heroic things, but hero is not a noun, it's a verb.
Robert Downey Jr.
#97. It is an Englishman who turns out to be the real villain of 'The Moonstone.' By contrast, the three Indian priests who dedicate their lives to returning the jewel to its proper home in the temple, though they have nothing personal to gain by doing so, are positively heroic.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#98. The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
Lascelles Abercrombie
#99. The fortitude of a Christian consists in patience, not in enterprises which the poets call heroic, and which are commonly the effects of interest, pride and worldly honor.
John Dryden
#100. In all the heroic tales, dying soldiers saw their lives pass before their eyes. No, Martin realized. The memories were just running like rats from a sinking ship, down the ropes only to drown. He watched the backs of their heads.
J.P. Moore
