Alexander - Man in the Arena

"My own assessment of myself is based on the extent not of my life but of my glory. I could have been content with my father's inheritance, and within Macedonia's bounds have enjoyed a life of ease as I awaited an old age without renown or distinction...But no - I count my victories, not my years...Do you think I can relinquish this quest for glory, the one thing to which I have dedicated my entire life? No, I shall not fail in my duty and wherever I fight I shall believe myself to be playing to the theatre of the world."
Alexander the Great, recovering from an arrow wound in the Mallian campaign in 325 BC.
Peter G Tsouras, Alexander - Invincible King of Macedonia

Dreamers of the Day change the world.
“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”

― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

"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; 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

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