Prosenjit Chatterjee Quotes

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

I didn't plan on running for speaker, but I don't see anyone else stepping up. I know I'm the underdog.

Grades don't measure tenacity, courage, leadership, guts or whatever you want to call it. Teachers or any other persons in a position of authority should never tell anybody they will not succeed because they did not get all A's in school.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

I was a daredevil before, and after I lost my sight I was the same. I loved riding bikes, scooters and horses. I even learned to box. Muhammad Ali is my hero.

When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

To achieve truly important things you have to be willing to put your personal reputation on the line …

I am not better or cleverer than anyone of you. But I remain undaunted, and that is why the leadership belongs to me. In darker moments than the present I did not lose courage—indeed I made still greater sacrifices.

I am always in front, and in time of battle am never behind.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

It constitutes a superhuman effort to lead any people in times of crisis. Without them, the changes would be impossible.

Wipe the tears away, stand up, be a man, run your business, find a way.

A person with a robust personality appears capable of doing anything. This is what the common man lacks. This is the dividing factor, the difference between the hero and the common man.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

It was, he thought, the difference between being dragged into the arena to face a battle to the death and walking into the arena with your head held high. Some people, perhaps, would say that there was little to choose between the two ways, but Dumbledore knew - and so do I, thought Harry, with a rush of fierce pride, and so did my parents - that there was all the difference in the world.

No matter what you do next, the world needs your energy, your passion, your impatience for progress. Don't shrink from risk. And tune out those critics and cynics. History rarely yields to one person, but think, and never forget, what happens when it does. That can be you. That should be you. That must be you.

For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be dumb enough to give it a shot. And for those who ask, how can you do that?... look them in the eyes and say, I'll figure it out.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

They laughed at Joan of Arc, but she went right ahead and built it.

If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.

The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.

I have the unmitigated gall to think that I could lead men anywhere, business, politics or combat.

Heroism's just doing more than you want to do or think you can. Sometimes it's just doing the crappy things, the unhappy things other people won't do....It's not just jumping out of a plane onto a glacier ten thousand feet up because there's nobody else there to do it. It's getting out of bed in the morning when it seems like too much trouble.