Heroic Quotes - Page 4

• Hope is a feeling that life and work have meaning. You either have it or you don't, regardless of the state of the world that surrounds you.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hope, Hero, Feelings

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• The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Meaning Of Life, Absence

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 5: "The Politics of Hope", 1990.

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• Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.

  Vaclav Havel

  Life, Struggle, Hero

  Open letter to Dr. Gustáv Husák, Communist President, April 08, 1975.

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• Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Love, Life, Family

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.

  Vaclav Havel

  Faith, Hero, Events

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Death, Fate, Honor

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1906). “Famous Speeches, Complete ...”

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• One man with courage is a majority.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Motivational, Success, Courage

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• Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Hero, Important, Society

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.286, Cambridge University Press

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• There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.

  John Keats

  Nature, Fire, Heroism

  John Keats (1820). “The Complete Works of John Keats”, p.37

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• If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Death, Faith

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

  Norm MacDonald

  Cancer, Guy, Battle

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• As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenplay can express those contradictions within a character and if there's room for me to express them, that's a part I'd love to play, so much more than a character who is heroic and one-dimensional.

  Hugo Weaving

  Character, Play, Rooms

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• I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Girl, Children, Boys

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• I admire Bruce Springsteen because he's a heroic person who has lots of integrity and has this incredible body of work that is so vital.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Work, Integrity, Body

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• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Power, Noble

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• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Evil, Lines

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• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

  Philip Zimbardo

  Smart, Hero, Unusual Things

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Knowing Better, Evil

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• Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Powerful, Hero, Variables

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• One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Hero, Psychological, Process

  "Emperor of the Edge". Interview with Christina Maslach, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 2000.

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Loner, Force Of Will

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

  Dean Koontz

  Hero, Sacrifice, Self

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• To commit herself to becoming "an apostle of Joy" when humanly speaking she might have felt at the brink of despair, was heroic indeed. She could do so because her joy was rooted in the certitude of the ultimate goodness of God's loving plan for her. And though her faith in this truth did not touch her soul with consolation, she ventured to meet the challenges of life with a smile. Her one lever was her blind trust in God.

  Brian Kolodiejchuk

  Loving Life, Joy, Challenges

  Brian Kolodiejchuk, Mother Teresa (2012). “Mother Teresa: Come Be My Light: The revealing private writings of the Nobel Peace Prize winner”, p.171, Random House

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• It's important to be heroic, ambitious, productive, efficient, creative, and progressive, but these qualities don't necessarily nurture soul. The soul has different concerns, of equal value: downtime for reflection, conversation, and reverie; beauty that is captivating and pleasuring; relatedness to the environs and to people; and any animal’s rhythm of rest and activity.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Animal, Reflection

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• Devotion to the truth is the hallmark of morality; there is no greater, nobler, more heroic form of devotion than the act of a man who assumes the responsibility of thinking.

  Ayn Rand

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Men

  Ayn Rand (1988). “The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z”, p.410, Penguin

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