Silence is an ornament for women.
SophoclesRead
Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.
Interpretation
Success comes to those who are brave and willing to take risks.
This quote by Sophocles emphasizes that fortune, or luck, favors those who have the courage to act decisively and boldly. The faint-hearted, or those who hesitate and show fear, are less likely to achieve their goals and attract positive outcomes.
In practice
You can use this quote to inspire a team during a motivational speech.
Silence is an ornament for women.
None love the messenger who brings bad news.
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.
Not even Ares battles against necessity.
You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.
There is nothing more hateful than bad advice.
We show up to fight racism, anti-black racism, xenophobia, homophobia, transphobia, Islamophobia, misogyny, patriarchy, anti-Semitism, because after Donald Trump is out of office, there will still be all those things here.
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
The courage to be is rooted in the God who appears when God has disappeared in the anxiety of doubt.
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.
If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.
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