I will always be the hopeless romantic, more often pathetic than heroic.
The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
To Be Successful You Don't Need Beautiful Face And Heroic Body, What You Need is Skillful Mind And Ability To Perform
Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue.
I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.
The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.
A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.
People have their complexities. They have their heroic moments and their villainous moments, too.
Freedom requires no effort to enjoy but requires heroic efforts to preserve.
It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.
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.
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself.
This is not a story of heroic feats, or merely the narrative of a cynic; at least I do not mean it to be. It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams.
No animal, according to the rules of animal-etiquette, is ever expected to do anything strenuous, or heroic, or even moderately active during the off-season of winter.
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Live in robust sanity, in holy obedience to the ordinary. " (The Message) "In an insane asylum like the world, simple sanity can be a heroic achievement.
He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.
Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.