For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving action.

For strong souls
Live like fire-hearted suns; to spend their strength
In furthest striving action.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where read more

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

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.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Thought is the blossom; language the bud; action the fruit behind it.

Never confuse movement with action.

Never confuse movement with action.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.

What's done we partly may compute,
But know not what's resisted.