“Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.”
“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”
“If you start to think about your physical or moral condition, you usually find that you are sick”
“A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form”
“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.”
“Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.”