faint heart never won fair lady
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Proverb edit
faint heart never won fair lady
- One must take risks in order to achieve a goal; success requires enterprise.
Translations edit
one must take risks in order to achieve a goal — see also no pain, no gain
See also edit
Further reading edit
- “faint heart never won fair lady”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “faint heart never won fair lady”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.