Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough read more

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.

He is at no end of his actions blest
Whose ends will make greatest and not best.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory.

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

I shall make the most of all that comes: And the least of all that goes

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the read more

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.