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."
- Theodore Roosevelt.
The man in the arena:
"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 actually 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.
Are you sure that the human world is the terminal point in the evolution of the cosmos? Is it not conceivable that there is still another dimension, a world beyond man’s world; a world in which the question of the ultimate meaning of human suffering would find an answer?
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to run among the great number who are not good. Hence, he must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
"We are living proof that when human beings have the courage and commitment to transform a dream into reality, there is nothing that can stop them."
- Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum