Instead of looking on ...

Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
Instead of looking on discussion as a stumbling block in the way of action, we think it an indispensable preliminary to any wise action at all.
 Pericles

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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

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Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
 Pericles
In private matters everyone is equal before the law. In public matters, when it is a question of putting power and responsibility into the hands of one man rather than another, what counts is not rank or money, but the ability to do the job well.
 Pericles
Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.
 Pericles
Although only a few may originate a policy, we are all able to judge it.
 Pericles
For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.
 Pericles