Lurlene McDaniel Quotes

Some people are cowards... I think by and large a third of people are villains, a third are cowards, and a third are heroes. Now, a villain and a coward can choose to be a hero, but they've got to make that choice.

Once, there was a girl who vowed she would save everyone in the world, but forgot herself.

If the Savior could die for the world, can't we work for it?

I believe that you and I - and everyone we'll ever meet - has the inborn capacity to be heroic, to take daring, courageous, and noble steps to make life better for others, even when in the short term it seems to be at our own expense. The capacity to do the right thing, to dare to take a stand and make a difference, is within you now.

What makes a heroine? I think I can answer that. A heroine is a woman who risks going too far in order to find out how far one can go for a cause greater than herself.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

Use the talents God has given you to make the world better for your having been in it.

No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.

I feel strongly that Mother Teresa’s life has a great message for young people. We so often feel powerless to do anything about the many problems in the world around us. We are so often left to wonder whether one person can possibly make a difference. Mother Teresa said yes, we can. Her life was resounding proof that it is possible

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

To die for others is the highest purpose a person may achieve.

No person among us desires any other reward for performing a brave and worthy action, but the consciousness of having served his nation.

That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.

I have a theory that selflessness and bravery aren't all that different.

It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to find the right person in your life, be the right person. If you want to see change in the world, become the change you want to see.

One dictum I had learned on the battlefields of France in a far distant war: You cannot save the world, but you might save the man in front of you, if you work fast enough.

Courage is inseparable from love and leads to what may arguably be the noblest of all warrior virtues: selflessness.

The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality.

Being selfless is not that different from being brave. It is when you are selfless that you are the bravest.

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.