Ellen Wong Quotes

Amongst the qualities a hero should have, I would include determination, loyalty, courage, perseverance, patience, focus, intrepidity and selflessness.

We all wish to be brave and strong in the face of disaster. We all wish to be looked up to for our endurance and efforts to help others.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

A hero is a man who does what he can.

A hero holds purposes appropriate to man and is, therefore, a thinker.

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.

What can you say about such a man as Christopher Reeve? He embodied all the best that a human being can hope to be.

The thing about a hero, is even when it doesn't look like there's a light at the end of the tunnel, he's going to keep digging, he's going to keep trying to do right and make up for what's gone before, just because that's who he is.

‘Tis better to have fought and lost, Than not to have fought at all.

But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo.

Die trying" is the proudest human thing.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

One thing that's great about firefighters: If they don't have the equipment they desperately need, they don't have the help, they don't care. They'll do it on their own.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Suffering! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

There's a scene I particularly like in 'Betrayed' where Shane has been shot in the side. Yet he drives to a small airport, checks out the Rockfort plane and flies himself and Elena to safety. Only when he knows they are out of danger does he allow himself to sit down on the couch and admit he's injured - to a horrified Elena.

I think if I could be any superhero, it'd probably be my mom... but I don't think I'd look too good in high heels, so it's not gonna happen.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the hero.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.