David Oyelowo Quotes

Let the world admire the supposed wisdom and valor of our great men, Perhaps they may adopt the qualities that have been ascribed to them, and thus good may be done.

I always saw my mother just making decisions that helped our family. It was much later when I realized how courageous she really was, and I came to understand what a risk-taker she was. That's very much a part of how I am.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

I think I'm a fan of people who were brave, my aunt, my grandmother, those are my heroes.

The heroes of the present will retreat to the imitation they are anyhow.

Captain Richard Phillips of the good ship Maersk Alabama - and Sully Sullenberger splashing down his crippled airliner in the Hudson River - broke through the poisonous smog of economic depression and Wall Street skullduggery with a reminder that pure individual heroism is a daily occurrence if we know where to look for it.

The chief thing is to make children feel good about themselves. They want to step into the shoes of a hero who is bigger and stronger, to face tremendous dangers and come home safely for tea.

Americans have a profound longing for heroes - now perhaps more than ever. We need our explorers, our sports icons, our Medal of Freedom winners, our Nobel laureates. We need our Greatest Generation warriors, our 'Sully' Sullenbergers, our Neil Armstrongs. On some level, we still subscribe to the myth of the man in the white hat.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

It's an interesting thing to play the heroes of our society, like cops and firefighters. They're the basic heroes that, as little boys and little girls, you look up to as the first heroes of your small, specific community.

King Arthur was one of my heroes because he was such a marvelous, heroic, courageous, and magnificent person that I had to admire him even though I knew perfectly well that I could never be in any way like that.

My heroes are not necessarily people of great ability but ones who did what I think I could not.

Every Medal of Valor recipient has confronted life-threatening danger. Each had their fight-or-flight moment. But each one stood their ground for our safety. We hold them up as examples to other first responders - and to all Americans.

Dad had a huge influence on me. I really look up to him for his brave acts. He was an outspoken man. For him, if it was the right thing, he would stand up for the smallest guy around him.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

I like heroes, and would like to be a hero myself. I suppose we all want that.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.

I'd love to have played Joan of Arc. That would have been amazing.

The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.

Heroism is endurance for one moment more.

Better to have beasts that let themselves be killed than men who run away.

It's silly to say it about a tennis player, but I'm an unbelievable hero in Germany. And Germany needs heroes more than any place.

We remember the heroes who ran into the burning buildings to rescue those trapped inside, and the dauntless passengers on Flight 93 who laid down their lives to save others, including almost certainly those of us in the U.S. Capitol.