Terry Pratchett Quotes

would you like to hear the night i bravely fought the- no? alright

Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.

If you can't be a hero, you can at least be funny while being a chicken.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

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

A hero could be anyone who does something heroic, irrespective of the gender.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may going to prove one's self a fool.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

When the moment comes, will you take your chance to be a hero?

The hero is brave in deeds as well as words.

Do not despair. Heroes rarely live up to to our expectations

Where there is a brave man, in the thickest of the fight, there is the post of honor.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Intrepidity is an extraordinary strength of soul, which raises it above the troubles, disorders and emotions which the sight of great perils can arouse in it; by this strength heroes maintain a calm aspect and preserve their reason and liberty in the most surprising and terrible accidents.

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat

Since time out of mind, a considered act of heroism has been the cure for stultifying ambivalence.

Being a hero doesn't mean you succeed in saving the day. It just means you tried.

Do one thing that's heroic for you today - big or small - and fear won't define you anymore.

The brave man, the real hero, quakes with terror, sweats, feels his very bowels betray him, and in spite of this moves forward to do the act he dreads.

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

Cowards suffer, heroes enjoy.

Over the last month I had pulled a woman from a blazing inferno. I had called fire and lighting down on assassins and escaped to safety. I had even killed something that could have been either a dragon or a demon, depending on your point of view. But there in that room was the first time I actually felt like any sort of hero. If you are looking for a reason for the man I would eventually become, if you are looking for a beginning, look there.

'Heroism' is not the same as coping. A man who does his job properly and succeeds through his own efforts is definitely to be commended, but he is not a hero in the classic sense until he deliberately lays his life on the line for a cause he deems to be greater than himself.

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.