Jennifer Rowe Quotes

It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

My mother is the bravest human being I've ever come across.

A modern hero is very ambiguous. I went through some very rough times in Czechoslovakia - the occupation by the Germans at the end of the war. We had people going against their tanks with brooms. Are they nuts, or are they heroes?

In the heat of battle, heroes emerge, sometimes from the most unlikely of sources.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. - Poseidon

To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Meet everybody and every circumstance on the battlefield of life with the courage of a hero and the smile of a conqueror.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of prudence, in the plenitude of its energy and power to repair the harms it may suffer. The hero is a mind of such balance that no disturbances can shake his will.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

Not all men were meant to dance with dragons.

Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.

The blood of heroes is closer to the Lord than the ink of scholars and the prayers of the pious.

Oh! Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not. Do not return to your families with the stigma of disgrace marked on your brows. Return as heroes who have fought and conquered, and who know not what it is to turn their backs on the foe.

When he pulled away, he smiled kindly at me. I felt so good, I'll admit I teared up a little. I guess until that moment I hadn't allowed myself to realize just how terrified I had been the last few days. "Dad-" "Shhh," he said. "No hero is above fear, Percy. And you have risen above every hero. Not even Hercules-

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

There are always these moments in life when the limits of suffering are reached and we become heroes and heroines.

The best heroes in the world are the reluctant ones. Courage isn't fearlessness - it's acting in the face of fear.