“Recovering alcoholic guys wake up in the morning, and they have to think of a reason to get up, and then, once they're up, to not have a drink. It's like all these little heroic battles they have that they fight with and against every day of their lives.” ThinkingLittlesReasonGuyFightingMorningDrinkBattleWake UpGet UpHeroicAlcoholicsRecoveringRecovering Alcoholics Author:Liam Neeson
“To stand upon ramparts and die for our principles is heroic, but to sally forth to battle and win for our principles is something more than heroic.” DiesWinningPrinciplesHeroBattleHeroic Author:Franklin D. Roosevelt
“We honor our heroic and patriotic dead by being true men, as true men by faithfully fighting the battles of our day as they fought the battles of their day.” MenFightingHonorBattleBeing TruePatrioticHeroicTrue Man Author:David McMurtrie Gregg
“Sadly, a prize for peace is a rarity in this world. Most nations have monuments or memorials to war, bronze salutations to heroic battles, archways of triumph. But peace has no parade, no pantheon of victory.” WorldWarNationsThis WorldVictoryBattleTriumphPrizeHeroicMemorialMonumentParadesBronzeRarityPantheonSalutationsArchways Author:Kofi Annan
“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.” GuyLostTermBattleCancerBotherCourageousHeroicDefeated Author:Norm MacDonald
“I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.” PeopleBookFictionBattleHeroicCaricaturesSimplification Author:Zadie Smith
“He's probably their battle poet, too." "You mean he makes up heroic songs about famous battles?" "No, no. He recites poems that frighten the enemy....When a well-trained gonnagle starts to recite, the enemy's ears explode.” WellsMeanSongEnemyPoetBattleEarsHeroic Author:Terry Pratchett
“The truth is that the heroism of your childhood entertainments was not true valor. It was theatre. The grand gesture, the moment of choice, the mortal danger, the external foe, the climactic battle whose outcome resolves all--all designed to appear heroic, to excite and gratify and audience. Gentlemen, welcome to the world of reality--there is no audience. No one to applaud, to admire. No one to see you. Do you understand?Here is the truth--actual heroism receives no ovation, entertains no one. No one queues up to see it. No one is interested.” WorldRealMomentsRealityChoicesAudienceChildhoodDangerTruth IsBattleEntertainmentTheatreReal LifeAdmireWelcomeMortalsGentlemanOutcomesResolveHeroicGesturesHeroismFoeValorQueuesOvation Author:David Foster Wallace
“It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle. Strange as it sounds, steady, patient growth in freedom is probably the most difficult task of all, requiring the greatest courage. Thus if the term "hero" is used in this discussion at all, it must refer not to the special acts of outstanding persons, but to the heroic element potentially in every man.” IfsMenPersonsPlayMovingUsedDifficultSoundGrowthTermCourageGreaterJourneySpecialStrangeHeroEasierBattleElementsTasksPatientEvery ManPreservesDiscussionRealmsSteadyHeroicInwardMartyrOutstandingDifficult Tasks Book:Man's Search for Himself Source: Man's Search for Himself