Thucydides Quotes

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

A Victory without danger is a triumph without glory.

out of the greatest dangers, communities and individuals acquire the greatest glory.

To vanquish without peril is to triumph without glory.

Great things are won by great dangers.

When there is no peril in the fight there is no glory in the triumph.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.

We triumph without glory when we conquer without danger.

Do you want to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?

Everything I did in my life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Going after anything worthwile in life entailed risk, of course. A man of ambition and courage didn't let that stop or delay him. A man accepted the dangers, the element of chance. If he didn't, he won nothing.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

No noble thing can be done without risks.

Great men are never sufficiently shown but in struggles.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

Life has to be dangerous.

There could be no honor in a sure success, but much might be wrested from a sure defeat.

I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

You are part of that horrid expression, the best and the brightest. It can be a terrible burden if you let it be, but it is the great challenge of your time. And being a warrior in that challenge should be wondrous.