Franka Potente Quotes

Hard times don't create heroes. It is during the hard times when the 'hero' within us is revealed.

For a lot of people, Superman is and has always been America's hero. He stands for what we believe is the best within us: limitless strength tempered by compassion, that can bear adversity and emerge stronger on the other side. He stands for what we all feel we would like to be able to stand for, when standing is hardest.

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

Difficult times often bring out the best in people.

A hero is someone who, in spite of weakness, doubt or not always knowing the answers, goes ahead and overcomes anyway.

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

He was a great man. He taught himself how to walk again, to write with his left hand. My father was a hero.

That's what I admire the most of my mom, that's she's so tough.

You can't keep a hero down, can you?

It is the surmounting of difficulties that makes heroes.

What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

Lance Armstrong is the guy that I would put up there as one of my heroes. He's done something that no one else has done and when you put into it what he overcame, it's absolutely unbelievable.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

I speak to people who have been through so much more.

My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.

Virtues, like viruses, have their seasons of contagion. When catastrophe strikes, generosity spikes like a fever. Courage spreads in the face of tyranny.

My mother was the greatest example to me of anyone I've ever known. She didn't have an easy life. I adored her. She worked hard all her life, and she was the one who set my values. She was quite an amazing woman, although she wasn't tough at all.

I've had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called 'a life' - I've refused to give up.

In such misfortunes my Mother was of an heroic spirit, in suffering patiently when there was no remedy, and being industrious where she thought she could help.