Heroic Quotes - Page 7

• If you know with a complete absence of doubt that what you are doing is consistent with your own purpose and that you are involved in accomplishing a great affair, then you are at peace with yourself and in harmony with your own heroic mission.

  Wayne Dyer

  Doubt, Purpose, Affair

  Wayne W. Dyer (2009). “Wisdom of the Ages: A Modern Master Brings Eternal Truths into Everyday Life”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• The function of (heroic) symbols is to give you a sense of Aha! Yes, I know what it is, it's myself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Giving, Function, Symbols

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• No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages.

  Aldous Huxley

  War, Age, Economics

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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• And as cynical and jaded as many have become, you see the heroic nature of cops, who put aside a lot of their own personal concerns and their families to speak for the dead, which is a sacred thing. Over time there is this thing in them that is very powerful and interesting and provocative to me.

  Veena Sud

  Powerful, Interesting, Cynical

  Source: deadline.com

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• A new model of heroic capitalism based on principle-driven, free-market entrepreneurship deserves a central place in business-ethics thought and action.

  Robert L. Bradley, Jr.

  Principles, Ethics, Action

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• But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Men, Talking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.111, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• This we must say, that everything is economics and economic interest as mere satisfaction of physical needs had, have and always will have a subordinate role in a normal human, that beyond this sphere must be differentiated from an order of higher values, political , spiritual and heroic.

  Julius Evola

  Spiritual, Order, Political

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• The idea of the solitary hero can be quite an unhealthy one, and we need to pool our efforts and be heroic together!

  Rob Hopkins

  Hero, Ideas, Effort

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• My father was a coal hewer from Goldthorpe, a coal-mining village in South Yorkshire. He played for the Yorkshire second team as an opening fast bowler - to me he was a gorgeously heroic man. He helped form a union and closed down the Barnsley seam because it was seeping gas, and saved many, many lives.

  Brian Blessed

  Team, Father, Men

  "My family values: Brian Blessed". Interview with Chris Hall, www.theguardian.com. January 1, 2010.

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• Revival comes from heaven when heroic souls enter the conflict determined to win or die - or if need be, to win and die! The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force.

  Charles Grandison Finney

  Winning, Heaven, Soul

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• The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life.

  Dalai Lama

  Real, Hero, Compassion

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.

  Plato

  Plato, Hero, Speak

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• Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds.

  Socrates

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Heroic Deeds

  Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”

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• A rational process is a moral process. You may make an error at any step of it, with nothing to protect you but your own severity, or you may try to cheat, to fake the evidence and evade the effort of the quest - but if devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality, then there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Cheating, Truth, Responsibility

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.961, Penguin

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• I assure you, my children, that when a Christian carries out with love the most insignificant everyday action, that action overflows with the transcendence of God. That is why I have told you so often, and hammered away at it, that the Christian vocation consists in making heroic verse out of the prose of each day. Heaven and earth seem to merge, my children, on the horizon. But where they really meet is in your hearts, when you sanctify your everyday lives.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Faith, Christian, Children

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• A man not perfect, but of heart so high, of such heroic rage, That even his hopes became a part of earth's eternal heritage.

  Richard Watson Gilder

  Hope, Courage, Heart

  Richard Watson Gilder (1885). “Lyrics”

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• I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.

  Viola Davis

  Spiritual, Book, Hero

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

  Danielle Arbid

  Real, Men, Misunderstood

  "‘Parisienne’ Director Danielle Arbid on Telling A Positive Story About a Foreigner Living in Paris". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 12, 2016.

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• The course was more plodding than heroic: I did not strive valiantly against doubters but took incremental steps studded with a few intuitive leaps.

  Steve Martin

  Doubters, Steps, Strive

  "Born Standing Up". Book by Steve Martin, www.npr.org. November 20, 2007.

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• The powerful and prominent soar like dragons, the heroic and valiant fight like tigers: but if you look upon them with cool eyes, they are like ants gathering on rancid meet, like flies swarming on blood. Judgments of right and wrong bristle like porcupine quills: but if you meet them with cool feelings, that is like a forge melting metal, like hot water dissolving snow.

  Zicheng Hong

  Powerful, Eye, Fighting

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• Government has got to invest more money in our NHS. The people who work in it are heroic. They do an amazing job.

  Michael Gove

  Jobs, Government, Nhs

  "Brexit live: Michael Gove promises NHS extra £100m a week by 2020 in leadership bid launch" by Jessica Elgot, Mark Tran and Ben Quinn, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2016.

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• I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

  Pico Iyer

  Thinking, Effort, Lama

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• The amazing heroic women in labor, they are the truest inspiration, and when they push their babies into the light... I am astonished every time.

  Robin Lim

  Baby, Inspiration, Light

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Studies from universities in Holland and Berlin confirm that 80 percent of Muslims in the Netherlands believe it is a heroic deed to travel to Syria as a fighter.

  Geert Wilders

  Believe, Heroic Deeds, Netherlands

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Of course, both [Oscar] Wilde & [Vladimir] Nabokov believe in many things, and these things emerge in their writing clearly - for Wilde, the folly of humankind and the (romantic) grandeur of the heroic, lone individual (not unlike Wilde himself); for Nabokov, the possibility of a kind of transcendence through a great, prevailing, superior sort of love (especially in Ada, the most self-congratulatory of novels.)

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Believe, Writing, Self

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