Heroic Quotes - Page 21

• If the Philippines secure their independence after heroic and stubborn conflicts, they can rest assured that neither England, nor Germany, nor France, and still less Holland, will dare to take up what Spain has been unable to hold.

  Jose Rizal

  Independence, Spain, Germany

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• Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.

  Ernest Renan

  Race, Soldier, Rebel

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• A heroic nature is very Greek.

  Patrick Wilson

  Greek

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• I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

  Tanith Lee

  Strong, Writing, Men

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• The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet.

  Benjamin Cardozo

  Hours, Trumpets

  Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (1982). “Cardozo on the Law: Including the Nature of the Judicial Process, The Growth of the Law, The Paradoxes of Legal Science, Law and Literature”

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• 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

  Atrocities, Criminals, Justified

  Jim Fergus (2005). “The Wild Girl: The Notebooks of Ned Giles, 1932”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of spirituality. To rise in an elevator, balloon, or airplane is to experience being liberated from weight, sublimated, invested with superhuman abilities. In addition, to rise from the earth is to approach the realm of light and overview. Therefore the negative overcoming of weight is at the same time the positive achievement of enlightenment and an unobstructed outlook.

  Rudolf Arnheim

  Airplane, Light, Climbing

  Rudolf Arnheim (2009). “The Dynamics of Architectural Form”, p.33, Univ of California Press

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• Most of all, I love Manchester. The crumbling warehouses, the railway arches, the cheap abundant drugs. That's what did it in the end. Not the money, not the music, not even the guns. That is my heroic flaw: my excess of civic pride.

  Tony Wilson

  Pride, Gun, Drug

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• The stories that spread today empower us and give us belief in our own heroic potential.

  Jonah Sachs

  Giving, Empowering, Marketing

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• The myth does not point to a fact; the myth points beyond facts to something that informs the fact

  Joseph Campbell

  Doe, Facts, Myth

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• The adventure of the hero is the adventure of being alive

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.206, Anchor

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• The road conditions are so variable here, there is ice, snow and everything in between. But a podium finish is a definite possibility if we stay smooth and adjust to the slippery conditions.

  Ken Block

  Ice, Snow, Variables

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• It's not a one time heroic moment but is living each day with bravery.

  Renzo Gracie

  Art, Mma, Bravery

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• How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.

  William Davenant

  Feet, Liberty, Poet

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• In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Art, Hands

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• It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy; it is just one of those preposterous things that men do like putting a dam across a great river, one tenth of whose volume could engulf the whole of mankind without disturbing the domestic life of a single catfish.

  Beryl Markham

  Animal, Men, Elephants

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.227, Open Road Media

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• We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth.

  Denis Hayes

  Years, Effort, Growth

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• The men that have been the most heroic for God have had the greatest devotional lives.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Men, He Man, Devotional

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• There's nothing heroic about suicide bombers. They're mostly just dumb, brainwashed kids, stoned out of their minds.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Suicide, Kids, Dumb

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• Over the years, many Americans have made sacrifices in order to promote freedom and human rights around the globe: the heroic actions of our veterans, the lifesaving work of our scientists and physicians, and generosity of countless individuals who voluntarily give of their time, talents, and energy to help others-all have enriched humankind and affirmed the importance of our Judeo-Christian heritage in shaping our government and values.

  George H. W. Bush

  Christian, Freedom, Sacrifice

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• The breakage and agony rending us today will be our salvation if they drive us by new routes to meet it. No one can proxy for us a masterpiece of loving or experience for us the rapture of art or launch for us book ships freighted with sweet bread to strengthen man. As of old we must be our own seers, musicians and explorers, and to an extent vaster than ever before.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Agony, Our World

  "Let Us Have Faith".

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• The determination in your heroic effort
  Will permeate your mind and heart
  Even after your success or failure
  Is long forgotten.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Determination, Heart, Long

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• Cowards never won heaven. Do not claim that you are begotten of God and you have His royal blood running in your veins unless you can prove your lineage by His heroic spirit: to dare to be holy in spite of men and devils.

  William Gurnall

  Running, Men, Blood

  William Gurnall (2015). “Daily Readings from The Christian in Complete Armour: Daily Readings in Spiritual Warfare”, p.21, Moody Publishers

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• Character cannot be summoned at the moment of crisis if it has been squandered by years of compromise and rationalization. The only testing ground for the heroic is the mundane. The only preparation for that one profound decision which can change a life, or even a nation, is those hundreds of half-conscious, self defining, seemingly insignificant decisions made in private. Habit is the daily battleground of character.

  Dan Coats

  Character, Self, Years

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• I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background there was not this heroic thing.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hero, Writing, Firefighter

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