Alethea Kontis Quotes

My one ambition is to play a hero.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

You know, heroes are ordinary people that have achieved extraordinary things in life.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

A hero cannot be a hero unless in a heroic world.

Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment.

I like very strong guys. Successful guys. Not necessarily financially.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

The law has no power over heroes.

In the end, very little gets in the way of what Manchester United wants to do.

Our athletes are our heroes.

I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes.

The world continues to offer glittering prizes to those who have stout hearts and sharp swords.

Success is the child of audacity.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.