# Quote — Cressida Cowell, How to Train Your Dragon

> A hero cannot triumph all the time.
>
> Sometimes he will be defeated, but how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

- Author: [Cressida Cowell](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell.md)
- Book: [How to Train Your Dragon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/How_to_Train_Your_Dragon_(novel_series)#How_to_Steal_a_Dragon's_Sword_(2011)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/a-hero-cannot

## More from this book

> If you were a fanciful person, you might have said that it was almost as if that box was looking for Hiccup.
>
> But we are not fanciful people, and that would be ridiculous.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/if-you-were.md)

> "Once I loved truly and my heart paid the price.
>
> Now let me love truly, Thor, let me love TWICE."

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/once-i-loved.md)

> Isn't fate artistic?

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/cressida-cowell/how-to-train-your-dragon/isnt-fate-artistic.md)