Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

Even if you've been a coward all your life, death is a heroic act.

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

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

Perhaps a hero is someone who doesn’t register his own vulnerability. Is it courage, then, if you’re too daft to know you’re mortal?

Being a hero means ignoring how silly you feel.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I don't think of myself as offbeat and weird. As a kid, I saw myself as the type of guy who would run into a burning building to save the baby.

I am not a hero.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is, to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.

I don't think I am hero material.

Forget yourself! Think courage.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct.

Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvelous work. The moment you fear, you are nobody. Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear'. Tell this to everybody-'Have no fear'.

There's a hero if you look inside your heart. You don't have to be afraid of what you are.

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

No hero is above fear.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

He who says, "I know no fear," is no hero. No man knows courage unless he does know fear, and has that in him which is superior to fear, and conquers it.

Being a hero doesn’t mean you’re invincible. It just means that you’re brave enough to stand up and do what’s needed.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment "The earth is enjoyed by heroes" - this is the unfailing truth.

Heroes aren't allowed to be nervous." "Who made up that rule?" "It's a known fact.