Actions from youth, advice ...

Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
Actions from youth, advice from the middle-aged, prayers from the aged.
 Hesiod

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

Quotes from the same author

Peace is a nursing mother to the land.
 Hesiod
A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
 Hesiod
The best man of all is he who knows everything himself. Good also the man who accepts another's sound advice; but the man who neither knows himself nor takes to hear what another says, he is no good at all.
 Hesiod
False shame accompanies a man that is poor, shame that either harms a man greatly or profits him; shame is with poverty, but confidence with wealth.
 Hesiod
Happy is the man whom the Muses love: sweet speech flows from his mouth.
 Hesiod