Ordinary Hero Quotes

#1. A hero is an ordinary person who performs an ordinary task In an extraordinary situation.

Ingibjorg N. Frid

#2. Readers tend to like a character who is at least superficially like themselves. But they quickly lose interest unless this particular character is somehow out of the ordinary. The character may wear the mask of the common man, but underneath his true face must always be the face of the hero.

Orson Scott Card

#3. Abundance is, in large part, an attitude.

Sue Thoele

#4. You don't need superpowers to be someones hero

Ricky Maye

#5. A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness.

Emily Rodda

#6. I don't want to be considered a hero ... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

Miep Gies

#7. A Hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.

Christopher Reeve

#8. There are those on Wall Street and in the plutocracy who feel that Geithner is a hero who deftly steered the country from economic ruin. To many ordinary Americans, however, he is considered a Wall Street puppet and a servant of the so-called banksters.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#9. A hero is an ordinary person doing things in an extra ordinary way.

Christopher Reeve

#10. Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by such heroes, by men and women who will stand for the result while it is only a possibility - people who will act to make possibility real.

Werner Erhard

#11. A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Quinn Loftis

#12. She had always been different, even when she tried not to be, unable to curb her curiosity which led her to read a great number of books. Her world was constantly expanding until she could no longer fit herself into the culture that was most important to her.

Susan Power

#13. A hero is no braver than an ordinary woman, but she is brave five minutes longer. (That's me piggybacking on Emerson.)

Camille Perri

#14. The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to see it.Conversely, the hero's only vulnerable spot is on his back, and so exactly where he has no eyes.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#15. A hero is an ordinary human being who does the best of things in the worst of times.

Leon Leyson

#16. To-Do lists help us break life into small steps.

Randy Pausch

#17. Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

Henry David Thoreau

#18. No good ever came out of possessing a firearm in a Patsy Cline singing mood.

Brian McGreevy

#19. After all, the ordinary hero hiding in each of us is often the most powerful catalyst for change.

Tate Taylor

#20. Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.

Philip Zimbardo

#21. You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things
to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.

Edmund Hillary

#22. Here's my definition of a hero. A hero is an ordinary person given being and action by something bigger than themselves. One thing I'm sure about is I'm real ordinary. Yet I've had the chance to touch the lives of a lotta people.

Werner Erhard

#23. Dependence upon God makes heroes of ordinary people like you and me!

Bruce Wilkinson

#24. I am not a hero, O.K.? I am not a hero. I am a very ordinary person.

Wael Ghonim

#25. Ordinary people who are just kind of just going about their lives are transformed into heroes because they have the courage to put their voices out there. I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

Viola Davis

#26. You pulled one story from your head, and another story popped up in its place, like tissues from a box.

Eileen Pollack

#27. The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

Henry Miller

#28. Remember, buying something is not the problem. The problem comes when we believe, for that moment, that the object we're buying is going to make us happy.

Celso Cukierkorn