It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus (485 - 425 BC)
Contributed by: Mary_C
We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
Aristotle (384 - 322 BC)
Source: Nicomachean Ethics Book 2 Chap. 1
Contributed by: Zaady