Breathing Quote by Rick Riordan

I wasn't heroic because I was never in danger.

— Nicholas Winton

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In…

— Archilochus

I was surrounded at the time by about a dozen of the enemy, whose clubs rattled upon me without mercy, and the strokes of…

— Richard Francis Burton

I have walked a stair of swords, I have worn a coat of scars. I have vowed with hollow words, I have lied my…

— Catherine Fisher

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I was never able to write seriously about heroes because I was very aware that I was not one and that in my background…

— Robert Sheckley

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as…

— Georg Brandes

My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the…

— Gaspar Noe

I could not play a straight-ahead courageous hero. It's not what I do.

— Robert Picardo

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

— Martin Freeman

In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I like to say I'm not a hero. I was lucky enough to lead a very successful war.

— Norman Schwarzkopf