Quotes About Heroic Qualities

#1. People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don't feel very much.

Franny Billingsley

#2. Government exists to create and preserve conditions in which people can translate their ideas into practical reality. In the best of times, much is lost in translation. But we try.

Gerald R. Ford

#3. Heroic people take risks to themselves to help others. There's nothing heroic about accepting $5 million to go out and run around chasing a ball, although you may show fortitude or those other qualities while you do it.

Gregg Easterbrook

#4. I think the book you always like best is the one you're about to write.

Margaret Atwood

#5. No leader did more for his country than Winston Churchill. Brave, magnanimous, traditional, he was like a king-general from Britain's heroic past. His gigantic qualities set him apart from ordinary humanity; there seemed no danger he feared, no effort too great for his limitless energies.

Gretchen Rubin

#6. You couldn't trust people to be tomorrow what they had been yesterday.

Garth Risk Hallberg

#7. You may speak but a word to a child, and in that child there may be slumbering a noble heart which shall stir the Christian Church in years to come.

Charles Spurgeon

#8. I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time ... You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

Julie Anne Peters

#9. Am I allowed to say I really wanted this? This is fantastic.

Steven Spielberg

#10. What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife?

Anthony Trollope

#11. We could say that compassion is the ultimate attitude of wealth: an anti-poverty attitude, a war on want. It contains all sorts of heroic, juicy, positive, visionary, expansive qualities. And it implies larger scale thinking, a freer and more expansive way of relating to yourself and the world.

Chogyam Trungpa

#12. Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself doesn't amuse others in Starbucks.

Paula Heller Garland