I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.
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.
An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.
What is the foundation of that interest all men feel in Greek history, letters, art, and poetry, in all its periods, from the Heroic or Homeric age down to the domestic life of the Athenians and Spartans, four or five centuries later? What but this, that every man passes personally through a Grecian period.
I thought, This is fabulous. It sent shivers up my spine. I thought, What kinds of people are these that would produce this kind of music in a camp? All the prison camp stories I've seen, and heard of, were about the heroism of men. As I researched this and heard the music, I realized that women were heroic too, on just as grand a scale. And their treatment was just as appalling.
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that the heroinehero 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.
I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.
What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.
All your wounds from craving love Exist because of heroic deeds.
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
We have every right to dream heroic dreams.
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.
I am still associated with a heroic period in French cinema, and my name remains linked to this period.
Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs. . . . We have every right to dream heroic dreams. Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. . . . Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women.
I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.
In a truly heroic life there is no peradventure. It is always doing or dying.
Morning brings back the heroic ages.
Lack of confidence, sometimes alternating with unrealistic dreams of heroic success, often leads to procrastination, and many studies suggest that procrastinators are self-handicappers: rather than risk failure, they prefer to create conditions that make success impossible, a reflex that of course creates a vicious cycle.
It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.