
“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“1486. Faint Heart ne'er won fair Lady.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Remember the old saying, "Faint heart ne'er won fair lady."”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 10.
“The search for truth…It's not for the faint-hearted.”
Det. Robert Goren in Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
“Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart.”
"All for the Good: Why genetic engineering must soldier on" TIME magazine, Vol. 153, No. 1 (11 January 1999)
Context: Moving forward will not be for the faint of heart. But if the next century witnesses failure, let it be because our science is not yet up to the job, not because we don't have the courage to make less random the sometimes most unfair courses of human evolution.
“Fortune is not on the side of the faint-hearted.”
Fragment 842.
Phædra
Obama: I’m Just Like Lincoln http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/08/16/obama-i-m-just-lincoln (16 August 2011)
2011
“The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave.”
As quoted in Who was Ronald Reagan? (2004), by Joyce Milton, p. 85
Post-presidency (1989–2004)
Context: I know it's hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen. It's all of the process of exploration and discovery. It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the faint-hearted. It belongs to the brave.