Quotes About Heroic Acts

#1. There can never be enough written about heroic acts and heroic people, we all need the inspiration they give us.

Carey V. Azzara

#2. Remember, Monsieur that roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns and that heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness.

Vincent De Paul

#3. But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots and medics.

Tim Holden

#4. My two main conclusions are that technology develops cumulatively, rather than in isolated heroic acts, and that it finds most of its uses after it has been invented, rather than being invented to meet a foreseen need.

Jared Diamond

#5. We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroine/hero can become a person of character and power. Stories of heroes and heroines often begin with a wound or loss or injustice and end with heroic acts of restoration.

David Richo

#6. True loyalty consists not in bowing the knee to earthly greatness, or in heroic deeds to "gild the kingly knave, or garnish out the fool," but in noble, generous acts of honest purpose, where truth, honor, and virtue, and a nation's welfare, are dearer than life.

James Ellis

#7. It is a remarkable feat to be able to see past the inhumanity of the behavior and recognize the humanity of the person committing the atrocious acts. This is not weakness. This is heroic strength, the noblest strength of the human spirit.

Desmond Tutu

#8. We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Howard Zinn

#9. Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing.

Joshua Hartzell

#10. There is nothing so satisfying as to be shot at without effect.

Robert Fisk

#11. Yet only the atrocities of the conquered are referred to as criminal acts; those of the conqueror are justified as necessary, heroic, and even worse, as the fulfillment of God's will.

Jim Fergus

#12. I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Sylvester Stallone

#13. The things that hurt us teach us.

Henry Ward Beecher

#14. This stray little thought released in him some echo of the past, a solitary trembling note whose sound rose higher and higher in his chest, awakening inarticulate longings and, inseparable from them, a piercing, unfamiliar sorrow.

Olga Grushin

#15. 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

#16. It is a matter of immense pride that never in history has there been a complaint against the Indian community from any society in the World. These values aren't small!

Narendra Modi

#17. I love dark chocolate. I'm also a peanut butter and chocolate fanatic. That's pretty much the greatest invention of the last century.

Tom Lenk

#18. Warre is deaths feast.

George Herbert

#19. A persistent soul, a divine fulfilment

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. My family, as always, is very supportive. My teenagers, Ben and Nina, had so little interest in interacting with me that it freed up time to work on the book.

Barron H. Lerner

#21. Jesus does what legalism can never do: he gives us a new heart and a new spirit. Without

Tim Chester

#22. Every human being must have boundaries in order to have successful relationships or a successful performance in life.

Henry Cloud

#23. To me this out-of-the way corner was always a wonderful and a mysterious place, where my castles in the air stood close together in radiant rows, and where the strangest and most splendid adventures befell me; for the hours I passed in it and the people I met in it were all enchanted.

Elizabeth Von Arnim