Rick Riordan Quotes

My mission my whole career was just to be somebody that you can look at and say, 'That's the guy I want to go into battle with.'

But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

As a kid, I wanted to be the person running from the monster. I also wanted to be the person saving people from the monster. I wanted to be a superhero.

It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.

It doesn't take a hero to order men into battle. It takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.

The greatest gift the hero leaves his race, is to have been a hero.

John Paul Jones was probably clinically committable, but that doesn’t take anything away fro him as a hero.

Warlike Ardour of the People: When they go into battle, it is a disgrace for the chief to be surpassed in valor, a disgrace for his followers not to equal the valor of the chief. And it is an infamy and a reproach for life to have survived the chief, and returned from the field. To defend, to protect him, to ascribe one's own brave deeds to his renown, is the height of loyalty. The chief fights for victory; his vassals fight for their chief.

I have come to protect the city. I will drive the British into the sea or perish in the effort.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

No doubt Jean Bart does not talk like you, but who of you could act like Jean Bart?

All Scouts should know about St. George. St. George is the Patron Saint of England; he is also the Patron Saint of cavalry in all countries, and therefore Patron Saint of Scouts.

Anyone can be a hero. You just have to have faith in yourself.

General David Petraeus is an American patriot and hero.

Usually, with 'Star Trek,' you always trust the captain. The captains are always going to pull us through; the captain's always going to win.

There's something very comforting in the fact that you're given this reminder that whatever it is, whatever situation you find yourself in, there are these people that will run into the danger to keep you safe.

God himself favors the brave.

I learned courage from Buddha, Jesus, Lincoln, Einstein, and Mr. Cary Grant.

A lot of people hate heroes. I was criticized for portraying people who are brave, honest, loving, intelligent. That was called weak and sentimental. People who dismiss all real emotion as sentimentality are cowards. They’re afraid to commit themselves, and so they remain ‘cool’ for the rest of their lives, until they’re dead—then they’re really cool.

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

I didn’t care…about heroes who could read minds or walk through walls or do magic. The heroes I liked had courage and knew more real stuff than those who opposed them.

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.

Heroes come along when you need them.

I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.