Heroic
Of or pertaining to, or like, a hero; of the nature of heroes; distinguished by the existence of heroes; as, the heroic age; an heroic people; heroic valor.
Worthy of a hero; bold; daring; brave; illustrious; as, heroic action; heroic enterprises.
Larger than life size, but smaller than colossal; -- said of the representation of a human figure.
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Heroic Quotations
There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark Twain
When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.
Joseph Campbell
When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
George Orwell
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
Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.
Ansel Adams
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Benjamin Disraeli
A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
What is a society without a heroic dimension?
Jean Baudrillard
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
Heroic Translations
heroic in Afrikaans is heldhaftig
heroic in German is heldenhaft
heroic in Norwegian is heroisk
heroic in Spanish is heroico
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