Heroic

Famous quotes containing the word heroic:

“It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)

“Anyone can be heroic from time to time, but a gentleman is something you have to be all the time.”
—Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936)

“It reminded me of Prometheus Bound. Here was traveling of the old heroic kind over the unaltered face of nature.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)