Andy Weir Quotes

I don't think I am hero material.

I am not a hero.

Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

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

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive it, he's always scared, and yet he always does survive it somehow.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.

I wish I had more of the hero gene, but I don't think I'd be very good at playing one.

Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.

Calculation never made a hero.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

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

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Danger gleams like sunshine to a brave man's eyes.

You can't test courage cautiously.

Valor is superior to number.

I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.