Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. ~ Japanese Proverb
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, "Always do what you are afraid to do."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.
~ St. Clement of Alexandra
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
~ Thornton Wilder
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. ~ Arthur C. Clarke
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit.
~ Aristotle
Work spares us from three evils: boredom, vice, and need.
~ Voltaire
Experience is the child of Thought, and Thought is the child of Action.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
You cannot plough a field by
turning it over in your mind.
~ Author Unknown
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
~ William B. Sprague
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
~ Samuel Johnson
Fortune favors the brave. ~ Publius Terence
He who hesitates is lost. ~ Proverb
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
~ Albert Einstein
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We are still masters of our fate.
We are still captains of our souls.
~ Winston Churchill
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
For hope is but the dream
of those that wake.
~ Matthew Prior
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
~ Lucretius
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose--
a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
~ Mary Shelley
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