Echoes

Fortune favors the brave.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

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.

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

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

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.

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.

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

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.

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." … You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

In prosecuting these discoveries, the dangers we are exposed to are obvious, but I rejoice that we are chosen to confront them.

Through endurance we conquer.