Stetson Jore’s Reviews > Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave > Status Update

“Never yet,” Theodore Roosevelt reminds us,”was worthy adventure worthily carried through by the man who put his personal safety first.”

Ben if you choose not to decide—even if you put things off— you still have made a choice. You are voting for the status quo. You are voting to let them decide. You are voting to give up your own agency.

Waste not a second questioning another man’s courage. Put that scrutiny solely on your own.

“He has won without glory who has won without peril”

Let us not wait for other people to come to us and call upon us to do great deeds. Let us instead be the first to summon the rest to the path of honor. Show yourself to be the bravest of all the captains, with more of a right to leadership than those who are our leaders at present.
- Xenophon