Becoming Quote by Madeleine L'Engle

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

— Dave Winfield

Heroes are ordinary people who make themselves extraordinary.

— Gerard Way

...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and…

— Salman Rushdie

Heroes are ordinary men and women who dare to see and meet the call of a possibility bigger than themselves. Breakthroughs are created by…

— Werner Erhard

When you see weakness in a hero, you are doing something to his identity. You take something away from the kids, the next generation;…

— Charles Bronson

There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the…

— Naguib Mahfouz

“Throughout the lives of mortals, there are always pivotal moments. Most often, those moments are so subtle we barely appreciate how momentous they are.…

— Jeff Wheeler

The ordinary man is as courageous and invulnerable as a hero when he does not recognize any danger, when he has no eyes to…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who…

— Victor Hugo

It is not mere chance that makes families speak of a child who is 'extraordinary for his age' and also of an old man…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.

— Henry David Thoreau

“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until he is…

— Darren Main