Quotes with heroic

  • I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
  • Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
  • To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

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  • Agnes Repplier Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is by patience and self-control that the truly heroic character is perfected.
    Character Ch. VI
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Ezra Pound A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Augustus William Hare Courage, when it is not heroic self-sacrifice, is sometimes a modification and sometimes a result of faith.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Thomas C. Haliburton Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
    Thomas C. Haliburton
    Canadian jurist, writer (1796 - 1865)
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  • Socrates Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Bruce Greenwood I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won't make the courageous choice. We won't make the decision that would make us heroic. We make the decision that would reveal us to be all too human.
    Bruce Greenwood
    Canadian actor and producer (1956 - )
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  • Nicholas Boileau If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.
    Nicholas Boileau
    French poet and critic (1636 - 1711)
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  • Adelbert von Chamisso 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
    German writer, liar and explorer (1781 - 1838)
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  • Albert Claude Is it absurd to imagine that our social behavior, from amoeba to man, is also planned and dictated, from stored information, by the cells? And that the time has come for men to be entrusted with the task, through heroic efforts, of bringing life to other worlds?
    Albert Claude
    Belgian-American cell biologist and doctor (1899 - 1983)
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  • Angela Davis It is essential to resist the depiction of history as the work of heroic individuals.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • John Milton Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Ansel Adams Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • Aldous Huxley No less than war or statecraft, the history of economics has its heroic ages.
    Collected essays (1959)
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Harriet Beecher Stowe One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
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  • Abigail Adams Patriotism in the female sex is the most disinterested of all virtues. Excluded from honors and from offices, we cannot attach ourselves to the State or Government from having held a place of eminence.... Yet all history and every age exhibit instances of patriotic virtue in the female sex; which considering our situation equals the most heroic of yours.
    Letter to John Adams, 17 June 1782
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • William Cowper Some men make gain a fountain whence proceeds
    A stream of liberal and heroic deeds;
    Charity 244
    William Cowper
    English poet (1731 - 1800)
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