Heroic Quotes - Page 28

• Lithuanian bishops have been heroic!

  Pope Francis

  Bishops, Lithuanians, Has Beens

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• Do one heroic thing today; big or small doesn't matter because it defines who you are and what you really believe

  Bob Goff

  Believe, Matter, Today

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• Some journeys are direct, and some are circuitous; some are heroic, and some are fearful and muddled. But every journey, honestly undertaken, stands a chance of taking us toward the place where our deep gladness meets the world’s deep need

  Parker J. Palmer

  Journey, Needs, World

  Parker J. Palmer (1999). “Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation”, p.36, John Wiley & Sons

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• The greatest cause of evil included all human motives in one giant paradox. Good and bad were so inextricably mixed that we couldn't make them out; bad seemed to lead to good, and good motives led to bad. The paradox is that evil comes from man's urge to heroic victory over evil.

  Ernest Becker

  Men, Evil, Victory

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• She has a choice. She can either accept a life of misery or she can struggle against it. And she chooses to struggle...she fails in the end but there's something beautiful and even heroic in her rebellion.

  Kate Winslet

  Beautiful, Struggle, Decision

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• On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither the Earth nor the women we love. We are now just the anti-heroic men, struggling with everyday life. Those boys wo wanted to become heroes... where did they all go? Whose heroes can we become at the end?

  Kim Do-Jin

  Struggle, Hero, Boys

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• Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Beautiful, Kings, Husband

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1169, Manonmani Publishers

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• The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.

  Richard J. Foster

  Christian, Lying, Home

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• They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am.

  Hugh Laurie

  Clever, Seems, Hard

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Life Is, Bliss

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• Follow your bliss. The heroic life is living the individual adventure. There is no security in following the call to adventure. Nothing is exciting if you know what the outcome is going to be.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Outcomes, Life Is

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• Societies create their own history and tend to wipe out lowly beginnings, either by forgetting them or inventing totally fictitious heroic rescues.

  Isaac

  Wipe, Forget, Rescue

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• I don't want to sound like a heroic woman or to seem full of myself, but I do have a core of trust that I'll figure things out and find my way. And if whatever I try is not a good experience, even that is a good experience. If something turns out lousy, it's interesting.

  Julie Taymor

  Interesting, Trying, Want

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• I'm not interested in embarrassing the United States. We as a nation need to foster a broader understanding of national security, and when in the name of national security the US government both overtly and covertly aligns itself with the apartheid state and against heroic freedom fighters for racial justice ... Not only in 1962 but also keeping in mind that Mandela was on the US terror watch list until 2008, that kind of myopic understanding of national security has devastating consequences.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Government, Names, Justice

  Source: news.vice.com

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• Mandela today is almost universally held as a heroic freedom fighter, and of course rightly so.

  Ryan Shapiro

  Today, Fighter, Courses

  Source: news.vice.com

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• Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that.

  Sheryl Swoopes

  Winning, Awards, Mvp

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• Take, say, the solidarity movement in Central America, which I think is what you probably had in mind. To a large extent, it comes out of mainstream Christianity, based on beliefs that have had outrageous human consequences in the past, and that I think are totally indefensible. In this case, they happen to lead to some of the most courageous, heroic, and honourable human action that's taking place anywhere in the world. Well, that's how life is, I guess. It doesn't come in neat little packages.

  Noam Chomsky

  Past, Thinking, America

  Source: chomsky.info

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• Riddick is an antihero. He's the quintessential antihero. We all know how much I love antiheroes. It takes you 45 minutes in the movie just for Riddick to understand the word "heroism," let alone for anyone to hope that he can be heroic.

  Vin Diesel

  Heroism, Minutes, Antiheroes

  Source: ellisbenus.com

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• I used to defend the West Wing show from the charge of sentimentality or wish-fulfilment, because I think if you do go into the Barack Obama White House you will find six or seven people around him who are true believers. We make these people climb this filthy rope and then we stand at the bottom and say, "Hey, your hands are dirty!" To show heroic, progressive, democratic politics at work was more than I ever expected.

  Bradley Whitford

  Dirty, Thinking, People

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• I think thing that makes Batman so endlessly interesting is that he's one of the most flawed and deeply human characters, even though he seems completely the most inhuman and infallible in costume. Psychologically he's one of the most complicated in both his strengths and his weaknesses. For me, one of his great strengths and weaknesses is that confidence. His emotional self-protection is one of the things that makes him heroic and sacrificing; he doesn't have a personal life. He sacrifices those to be the best hero he can be.

  Scott Snyder

  Hero, Character, Sacrifice

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• The Life of Johnson is assuredly a great, a very great work. Homer is not more decidedly the first of heroic poets. Shakespeare is not more decidedly the first of dramatists, Demosthenes is not more decidedly the first of orators, than Boswell is the first of biographers. He has no second.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Life, Work, Firsts

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• We have every right to dream heroic dreams.

  Ronald Reagan

  Dream

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1981

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• An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

  Frank Bruno

  Congratulations, Eagles, Letters

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• August [Wilson] elevates in us is the average man in a way that is heroic and real and human. What you do is you sit with our pathology, you invest in our humanity. We're not walking around like walking symbols like we mean something larger. We're just moving throughout our lives and that's the power of the piece. That's revolutionary.

  Viola Davis

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Art, Age

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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