AGILE IN ACTION

Thursday, 23 November 2006

Courage, dear boy!

Posted by Simon Baker
Tags: courage

Compromised agility is, more often than not, the result of a lack of courage to seek, and to persist until you achieve, necessary change.

Courage is an important value for me.

It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done 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 and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows 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 know neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt. From a speech given in Paris at the Sorbonne in 1910

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.

Winston Churchill


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