16 Quotes by Miep Gies

Real strength is being able to carry on when times are hard,

People should never think that you have to be a very special person to help those who need you.

I am not a hero. I just did what any decent person would have done.

I don't want to be considered a hero.... Imagine [if] young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero? I was not. I was just an ordinary housewife and secretary.

But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark room.

Any attempt at action is better than inaction. An attempt can go wrong, but inaction inevitably results in failure.

These unusual times were quickly making for unusual arrangements.