Charisma Carpenter Quotes

Real heroes are all around us and uncelebrated.

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.

You are the heroes. You are the heroes everyday.

In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.

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

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

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

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

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

If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.

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.

There are no heroes; we are all heroes on the street.

There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.

The people who stood out in the Sandy Hook incident, the heroes, were the normal, ordinary people who went to save those children.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

Without heroes, we are all plain people and don't know how far we can go.

The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.

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.

Part of what I do and what I want to do is I want to bring art into the everyday life. If you can take ordinary just walking in the street and you're confronted by something, that might change your day - it might inspire 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'm not interested in superheroes. What about normal people doing extraordinary things?

When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

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

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.