Echoes

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

You may never know what results come of your actions. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

We have a given problem to solve. If we undertake the solution, there is, of course, always danger that we may not solve it aright; but to refuse to undertake the solution simply renders it certain that we cannot possibly solve it aright.

If you're afraid — don't do it. If you're doing it — don't be afraid.

We tell our young managers: 'Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice'.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.

For if he who resolveth bravely oftentimes falleth short, how shall it be with him who resolveth rarely or feebly?

Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again. There is no disgrace in honest failure; there is disgrace in fearing to fail.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.

Fortune favors the brave.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

To see what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.