Abigail Adams Quotes, Hero Quotes, Heart Quotes

These are the times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed. The habits of a vigorous mind are formed in contending with difficulties. Great necessities call out great virtues. When a mind is raised, and animated by scenes that engage the heart, then those qualities which would otherwise lay dormant, wake into life and form the character of the hero and the statesman.

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The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

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Hence we will not say that Greeks fight like heroes, but heroes fight like Greeks.

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Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?

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Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Stars Quotes , Hero Quotes

But whoso is heroic must find crises to try his edge. Human virtue demands her champions and martyrs, and the trial of persecution always proceeds.

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Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.

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O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Hero Quotes , Soul Quotes

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Courage Quotes , Hero Quotes

Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Hero Quotes

Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero.

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We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes

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Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes.

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Our children long for realistic maps of the future that they can be proud of. Where are the cartographers of human purpose?

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Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Children Quotes , Hero Quotes

Spartans, stoics, heroes, saints and gods use short and positive speech.

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The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

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Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

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One of the worst days in America's history saw some of the bravest acts in Americans' history. We'll always honor the heroes of 9/11. And here at this hallowed place, we pledge that we will never forget their sacrifice.

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Tragic heroes are failed pragmatists. Their ends are unrealistic and their means are impractical.

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In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , God Quotes , Hero Quotes

I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Hero Quotes , Chinese Quotes