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Conflict
The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly.

Courage
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

Defeat
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 and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, 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 he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

Equality
No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Evil
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.

Law
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Success
I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.