History , as well as present - day storybooks , is filled with illustrations of those wonderful people who were either counted as " zero " - not worthy to stand up and be counted or who started their climb to " success " in life at point " zero " , with nothing to help them on ( save God's grace ) , and even nobody to encourage them on . But each of them rose to become a " hero " in his or her own way , in his or her own world.