Heroic Quotes

The change in the world is always brought by one man, whom we call "the leader". Who has the vision and the force not only to make people dream, but to reach and live that dream. He is intelligent enough to foresee tomorrow. He is selfless and courageous to the extent of being ready to sacrifice everything and express truth even if it defames him. People fellow him where he takes them. He is the one who accelerates history …

We bear, all of us, the misfortunes of other people with heroic constancy.

The coward makes himself cowardly, the hero makes himself heroic.

Inaction is cowardice, but there can be no scholar without the heroic mind.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

I'd love to do another 'Indiana Jones.' A character that has a history and a potential, kind of a rollicking good movie ride for the audience, Steven Spielberg as a director - what's not to like?

If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

In South America, I heard the 8th Symphony of Beethoven. And the young conductor thought, Beethoven must be heroic. But this is piece which shouldn't be heroic. And this was such a misunderstanding, such a deep misunderstanding.

He is never cowardly.

Christ can very well stand as an heroic figure. The hero need not be of wisdom all compounded. Also he is not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on to him.

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.

Even as she’d come to know the real Ralston—the Ralston who was not cut from heroic cloth—Callie had failed to see the truth. And, instead of seeing her own heartbreak coming, she had fallen in love, not with her fantasy, but with this new, flawed Ralston.

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain.

Heroic poetry has ever been esteemed the greatest work of human nature.

Heroes are damned. No mortal conquers Death.

I want to do action which is larger than life but has a touch of reality.

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

The most heroic word in all languages is revolution.

I think Dalai Lama efforts have been heroic.

The bravery and pioneering of early Hollywood was absolutely incredible.

Indiana Jones is very much an old-world kind of hero. He doesn't really have any kind of superpower or rely on any kind of technology to help him out of things.

When you do something stupid and die, it's pathetic," I said. "When you do something stupid and survive it, then you get to call it impressive or heroic.

Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.