Editing Outward Bound (section)

==Blue Peter nautical flag==
[[Image:ICS Papa.svg|thumb|The [[International maritime signal flags|Blue Peter]] nautical flag indicates that a vessel is "outward bound". Outward Bound schools use and raise this flag to symbolise the journey starting for OB students at the start of a programme.]]
The name Outward Bound derives from a nautical expression that refers to the moment a [[ship]] leaves the harbour.<ref name=":4" /> This is signified by Outward Bound's use of the nautical flag, the [[International maritime signal flags|Blue Peter]] (a white square inside a blue square). JF Fuller adapted the Outward Bound motto, "To Serve, To Strive and not To Yield," from the poem "[[Ulysses (poem)|Ulysses]]" by [[Alfred Lord Tennyson]]:
<poem style="margin-left: 2em;">... Come, my friends.
Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Though much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not now that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are --
One equal temper of heroic hearts,
Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.</poem>