Ann Aguirre Quotes

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.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

When you feel the world is against you or you give up hope, you look at your heroes and say, "They were able to do it. They had hard times and a lot of opposition, but they got through it." Then you feel, "I can do it too."

People wrote the most beautiful things during the ugliest times.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.

I make dark dramas, movies about people living in desperate fear who then overcome that fear and find a heroic side to themselves.

I enjoy reporting on triumph over tragedy.

I feel like I'm a fighter. I've fought my whole life to get to where I'm at. I like fight movies. When someone gets knocked down, I like to root for him to succeed.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

Every time I see a film about Joan of Arc I'm convinced she'll get away with it. It's the only way to get through life.

Man is not made for defeat.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.

I was talking to a guy who was holding his 18-month-old daughter with the only limb he had left, and he had a smile on his face. I thought, 'I'm not even a 10th of this man.'

What really makes a hero a hero is if you take that person's hand, and you walk with that person, and they have a lot of weaknesses, but in the end, they overcome all of their obstacles.

There is no better feeling than coming into a tough environment and winning.

I always tell my story because I want others who have felt broken to know they can make it.

A superhero is someone who, at some point or in some way, inspires hope or is the enemy of cynicism.

What makes Batman and what makes other superheroes work is the myth that when life is at its lowest, and when you need a hero, a hero swings down and helps you.

I've met quadriplegics who have lost the use of their limbs but not their spirit. They are not dark, defeated people.

When my doctors said I would never walk, I didn't believe them. I knew I wasn't meant to spend my life in a chair.