Quotes About Quiet Heroes

#1. She was one of those quiet heroes that we have all across America.They're not famous. Their names are not in the newspapers, but each and every day they work hard. They aren't seeking the limelight. All they try to do is just do the right thing.

Barack Obama

#2. Listen to that voice that tells you not to trust someone, even though he's deliciously charming, remember Wickham and Willoughby and all those cads. And give another man a chance, even though he's not your usual type - remember Mr Knightly and Colonel Brandon and all those quiet heroes.

Menna Van Praag

#3. She's another Deanna Durbin,' [Harry] Cohn said, 'except that she can't sing.

Gene Tierney

#4. Beyond the clumsy, brute force tools of will, determination and hard work - and free from the heavy attachment of want, and the illusions of burden and blocks, is the true technology of creation through beingness.

Bryant McGill

#5. I try to avoid people's eyes because I don't like to get that intimate with just anybody. i don't need the responsibility.

Sandra Bernhard

#6. There are nine hundred and ninety-nine patrons of virtue to one virtuous man.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34

David Graeber

#8. A good thing to do when one is sitting, eating, and resting is to have a conversation.

Lemony Snicket

#9. Battered and bruised but still fighting for dominance his was not the selfish petty pride that made bullies of lesser men but rather the quiet
determined dignity that turned men into heroes and made heroes crawl back to their feet from the bitter dust of defeat and stand tall once more.

C.L. Wilson

#10. Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.

Armstrong Williams

#11. Cycling, cycling forever bear, wolf, caribou. When had it all started, where will it end? We are all part of one, from such simple beginnings and yet all so different. Yet one. One and again.

Kathryn Lasky

#12. But no one has ever gone from slavery to freedom with the slaveholders cheering them on, nor contributed significantly to the evolution of our species by working a forty-hour week, nor achieved any significant accomplishment by taking refuge in cynicism.

Edwin H. Friedman

#13. When you treat yourself with the kindness and high regard that you would give to one of your spiritual heroes, your body becomes the epicenter of quiet joy rather than a battlefield for the ego.

Debbie Ford

#14. There's just one revolution that I can take seriously, and that's a police revolution.

Imre Kertesz

#15. Why is the tea so good here?"

"I spit in it.

Maggie Stiefvater

#16. If I didn't have a sense of humor, how could I stand this trial now?

Hermann Goring