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''Who Dares Wins'' (Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...
: ''Qui audet adipiscitur''; el, Ο Τολμών Νικά, ''O tolmón niká''; french: Qui ose gagne; it, Chi osa vince; Portuguese
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: ''Quem ousa vence''; German
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: ''Wer wagt, gewinnt'') is a motto
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made popular in the English-speaking world by the British Special Air Service
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling and in 1950, it was reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terro ...
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The german: Wer wagt, gewinnt is attested from at least the 18th century. Slight variations go back further. The same is likely true of other languages.
As motto of the SAS it is normally credited to its founder, Sir David Stirling. Among the SAS themselves, it is sometimes humorously corrupted to "Who cares howins?".
The expression appears in a medieval Arabic book of fairy tales translated and published in 2014.
The catchphrase "He Who Dares Wins" was commonly used by Del Boy
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in British sitcom
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''Only Fools and Horses
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''. The shortened form "Qui Audet" is also heard on the second episode of ''Pennyworth''.
The motto has been used by twelve elite special forces
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units around the world that in some way have historical ties to the British SAS.
The phrase is the motto of Baron Alvingham of Woodfold in the County Palatine of Lancaster, a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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