Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
Interpretation
Significant achievements often require taking substantial risks.
This quote by Herodotus emphasizes the idea that accomplishing remarkable and impactful actions is not without its challenges and dangers. It suggests that true greatness is often accompanied by the willingness to face uncertainties and take bold steps, highlighting the relationship between risk and reward in the pursuit of greatness.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to inspire individuals to pursue their goals despite fears.
The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Greek vapor bath can surpass it. The Scythians howl with joy in these vapor-baths, which serve them instead of bathing, for they never wash their bodies with water.
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Men trust their ears less than their eyes.
The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.
All men's gains are the fruit of venturing.
Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.
I am a black woman, and my experiences would not be what they are if I wasn't. I'm so happy to share those experiences for other people to be able to learn from them.
Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes ; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about.
I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient.
I had to walk away from America, and say goodbye to the biggest part of my career, because I knew otherwise my demons would get the better of me.
Of all my accomplishments I may have achieved during the war, I am proudest of the fact that I never lost a wingman.
The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die.
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