Twelve days north of Hopeless and a few degrees south of Freezing to Death

For a Hero cannot triumph all the time. Sometimes he will be defeated, and how he faces that defeat is a test of his character.

There's no such thing as im-POSSIBLE, Hiccup, only im-PROBABLE. The only thing that limits us are the limits to our imagination

Remember, there is nothing wrong with a healthy sense of self-respect.

But then I have always been somewhat of a square peg in a round hole.

That is a terrible plan." "Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible." "Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

The past is another land, and we cannot go to visit. So, if I say there were dragons, and men who rode upon their backs, who alive has been there and can tell me that I'm wrong?

Oh, for Thor's sake..." said Hiccup. "I thought that was just a story..." "Stories come from somewhere," said the witch. "The past haunts the present in more ways than we realise.

We're all snatching precious moments from the peaceful jaws of time.

A Chief must show no fear, no worry... A Chief is a leader first, and a man second.

I was not a natural. . . . This is the story of becoming . . . the Hard Way.

Leadership is service, not position.

It's so reassuring to have a woman heroine who triumphs with more than just what she has on the outside who has more to offer the world than just a pretty picture.

Not yet, when I'm gone I'll be a legend, right now I'm just very good at what I do.

When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness. Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in your life.

We like someone because. We love someone although.

For the LORD is our judge, the LORD is our lawgiver, the LORD is our king; it is he who will save us.

Don't blame others when something goes wrong. Don't blame yourself endlessly, either. Just find ways to do it differently next time.

Things, very strange things, happen in folktales and there is never much attention given to the whys and wherefores.

I actually don't have a great surplus of ideas. Some evolve very slowly, over many years, but I sort of trust that all of the interesting ones will become something that I eventually end up doing.

Chide a friend in private and praise him in public.