Great things are won by great dangers.
Interpretation
Achieving significant successes often requires taking substantial risks.
This quote by Herodotus emphasizes the idea that remarkable achievements are often the result of embracing challenges and taking bold risks. It suggests that the path to greatness is fraught with dangers, and those who dare to confront them are the ones who ultimately attain great rewards.
In practice
In a motivational speech about pursuing dreams and taking risks.
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.
Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks.
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.
To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat.
You might not be a big fan of politics, but you can still participate. All you need to do is vote for people you believe will work on these issues, and if they don't work the way they should, then it is your responsibility to call them, organize a town hall, and demand that they show up - hold them accountable.
Grunts on the line, where the enemy wants them dead, still goof off - even knowing that by letting their guard down they might die.
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
Shouting down and intimidating someone from speaking their mind is not exactly a Vermont town meeting value, nor should it be an American town meeting value.
Most women I know have been harassed in some way. And you never wanted to report it, because you were afraid of losing your job or you felt like, hey, did that just happen? I think it's good that women now... have the courage! Because it's not easy.
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