"You go on inside. Be bold, nothing to fear.
In every venture the bold man comes off best,
even the wanderer, bound from distant shores."
– Homer
The Odyssey, Book 7, lines 58-60. Athena exhorts Odysseus to be brave and go into the palace of King Alcinous to seek help in getting home. The brave man fares best in every endeavour, she tells him.