David Benioff Quotes

I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary acts have placed me face to face with death, I cannot recall a single one where any alternative step to that I took occurred to me until many hours later.

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

One brave deed makes no hero.

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

Brave soldier, never fear. Even though your death is near.

No hero is above fear.

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.

All is possible for those who dare to die!

The coward sneaks to death; the brave live on.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

This thing of being a hero, about the main thing to it is to know when to die.

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.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Men, today we die a little.

No hero is mortal till he dies.

To die for one's country is such a worthy fate that all compete for so beautiful a death.

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

I am not a hero.

You shall hear a good account of me or of my death.

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

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

Real heroes are those who face death for a principle - say, to save the lives of others - without any promise of reward.

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

The valiant never taste of death but once.