Not like a lead balloon: Dare greatly

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Some sayings are oxymorons; hence totally contradictory - like the term "lead balloon". It means that what was shared was not liked at all or was a total failure.

Sometimes some quotes and sayings make no sense at all. Others can be so good that they are illuminating and inspiring - requiring no explanation.
These saying can resonate deeply and totally transform ones life.

Here is a quote which speaks volumes - hence I have nothing additional to add.

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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