Eoin Colfer Quotes

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

You only get one chance at life and you have to grab it boldly.

Calculation never made a hero.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Sometimes you've gotta take a risk.

She kept walking. The very small, brave part of her brain knew that this would be her one chance. If she turned around, she would lose it.

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity. To seize everything you ever wanted in one moment. Would you capture it or just let it slip?

If anyone on the verge of action should judge himself according to the outcome, he would never begin. Even though the result may gladden the whole world, that cannot help the hero; for he knows the result only when the whole thing is over, and that is not how he became a hero, but by virtue of the fact that he began.

Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes.

You've got to seize the opportunity if it is presented to you.

Only a few act - the rest of us reap the benefits of their risk.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

The result showed that fortune helps the brave.

The soldiers that didn't come back were the heroes. It's a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you're a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you're a survivor.

Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.

Leap, and the net will appear.

I mean, I'm not going to play the hero of something.

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

I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.

Courage is heartworth making itself felt in deeds. It never waits for chances; it makes chances.

Life was always a matter of waiting for the right moment to act.

Chance and intrigue have produced more heroes than genius and virtue.

Heroing is one of the shortest-lived professions there is.

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