Rick Riordan Quotes

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.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Only a fool is never afraid, Frank. Heroes are the people who carry on despite their fear, because they know the job’s got to get done

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.

A hero can be afraid, but a hero never runs away.

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.

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.

Times of heroism are generally times of terror, but the day never shines in which this element may not work.

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

The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.

But you can’t put fight into a man’s guts if he hasn’t any fight in him. There are some of us so cowardly that you can’t ever make heroes of us, not even if you frighten us to death. We know too much, maybe. There are some of us who don’t live in the moment, who live a little ahead, or a little behind.

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.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

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

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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.

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

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

Better be killed than frightened to death.

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

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.