Echoes

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

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

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

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

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

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

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

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.

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

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

Fortune favors the brave.

The only certainty is that nothing is certain.