Irena Sendler Quotes

All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I'd like them to say, Carol's basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol's kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.

I can be very ordinary looking.

Corky is an ordinary person who does extraordinary things. He is a true inspiration, but he doesn't know that he's an inspiration.

I don't consider myself to be an extraordinary person.

I don't want to be a VIP. I want to be an LIP, a Less Important Person.

I was never the star of my team, not even in my small town.

Don't call me a hero. I would prefer myself being called as an actor.

I didn't set out to be a regular hero.

I do my job - I don't try to seek the spotlight; that's not my way.

Heroes don't need to talk about what they did.

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

I don't feel the need to be in the spotlight whatsoever.

Every hero doesn't do this great big hero thing. They do the simple thing over and over... and they stick to it.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

I just go where I'm sent and I do what I'm told. I listen to the highest voices within me. I don't feel the least bit courageous. I don't feel like I deserve any medals. I don't feel that I'm any more special than anybody else who's out there.

In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.

Atlee is a very modest man. And with reason.

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.

I'm just a skinny kid from Maywood trying to do my best. I never took anything for granted. I never wanted to come off like some kind of big-headed, conceited athlete.

I don't see myself as anything. I just wander around getting on with my life.

My reason for coming out isn't to be some sort of hero.

I'm kind of a low-key guy. The spotlight doesn't suit me. I'm more of a side dish--cole slaw or French fries or a Wham! backup singer.

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

Only have enough of little virtues and common fidelities, and you need not mourn because you are neither a hero nor a saint.

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.