#heroic

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#godlike #heroic #lend #me #owe

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both. ↗

— John Green

#certain #choose #die #essentially #game

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#could #everlasting #fashionable #grand #great

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

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

— Sheryl Swoopes

#award #coming #heroic #i #just

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#good #heroic #remind #show #stories

There's soldiers out there every day that are doing heroic things... We don't need to create them. ↗

— Jessica Lynch

#day #doing #every #every day #heroic

Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#heroic #humor #po #humor

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

In this watering-place I acted an heroic character, badly studied; and being a novice on such a stage, I forgot my part before a pair of lovely blue eyes. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

#badly #before #being #blue #blue eyes