David Gemmell Hero Quotations

Societies need heroes. So we travel to places where the revisionists cannot dismantle the great.

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

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple.

A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.

Most of the heroes we remember we remember only because they won. To win you must be ruthless. Single-minded ... which was why he had no friends just admirers.