C. J. Cherryh Quotes

You know, I'm no different from a fireman. You got to run into a fire no matter how big the blaze is.

Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

You can't test courage cautiously.

I'd like to think that I'm brave. That's a really wonderful personality trait to have. I would love to think I'm the type of person to go rescue someone.

Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Choose bravery but not bravado.

There is always safety in valor.

Courage? Well, that's a difficult quality to define. If a man has never known fear can you call him courageous?

Heroism is heroism, regardless of the timeframe or the backdrop.

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

I've done smarter things in my life. Once, for example, I threw myself out of a moving car in order to take on a truckload of lycanthropes singlehandedly." ~Harry Dresden

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Bravery ceases to be bravery at a certain point, and becomes mere foolhardiness.

Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread.

I'm willing to fly close to the flame.

Courage in danger is half the battle.

In the film world, we can all be heroes. In the real world, where heroism can cost you your life or the life of the ones you love, people aren't so willing to make those sacrifices. When they do, they are set apart from the rest of us.

It was men who stopped slavery. It was men who ran up the stairs in the Twin Towers to rescue people. It was men who gave up their seats on the lifeboats of the Titanic. Men are made to take risks and live passionately on behalf of others.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.