Simon Beaufoy Quotes

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

One of the rules I try to follow is that normal people are going to be involved even in heroic events.

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

There are more heroes than cops, FBI agents, and lawyers.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

There aren't any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

Heroes are people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.

America is the story of everyday people who did extraordinary things. A story woven deep into the fabric of our society.

Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors.

And this is what was fascinating to me about 'The Help'; they were ordinary people who did extraordinary things.

September 11, 2001, revealed heroism in ordinary people who might have gone through their lives never called upon to demonstrate the extent of their courage.

There are so many heroes just walking around in everyday life. It blows me away.

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

Bad things do happen in the world, like war, natural disasters, disease. But out of those situations always arise stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things.

The past is past. To see real heroes, look around you.

Not in clanging fights and desperate marches only is heroism to be looked for, but on every bridge and building that is going up to-day, on freight trains, on vessels and lumber-rafts, in mines, among the firemen and the policemen, the demand for courage is incessant and the supply never fails.

I hope we see more stories where the heroes are real heroes, real people that don't need weapons or super powers to change people's lives.

To me, doctors and nurses and teachers are heroes, doing often infinitely more difficult work than the more flamboyant kind of a hero.

The greatest in heroes in life are the anonymous. That's what I believe. Your neighbours are heroes. People who, when you walk down the street, you see them feeding their little baby - these people are heroes because they are living under difficult situations, but they're still trying to save a life.

As athletes, we think we're heroes, but when you witness firsthand what I saw yesterday, you realize who the real heroes are.

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. And I think that's a powerful message in this time of political strife.

For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people.

Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes.

In every single day, in every walk of life, ordinary people do extraordinary things. Ordinary People accomplish Extraordinary things.