One can only learn his powers ...

One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
One can only learn his powers of action by action, and his powers of thought by thinking
 John Burroughs

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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

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
 John Burroughs
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or airplane or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
 John Burroughs
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
 John Burroughs
The type of mind of Whitman's, which seldom or never emerges as a mere mentality, an independent thinking and knowing faculty, but always as a personality, always as a complete human entity, never can expound itself, because its operations are synthetic and not analytic; its mainspring is love and not mere knowledge.
 John Burroughs
Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
 John Burroughs