Words are the wings of ...

Words are the wings of actions.
Words are the wings of actions.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater

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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

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
Nothing is so pregnant as cruelty; so multifarious, so rapid, so ever teeming a mother is unknown to the animal kingdom; each of her experiments provokes another and refines upon the last; though always progressive, yet always remote from the end.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
Desire is the uneasiness a man finds in himself upon the absence of anything whose present enjoyment carries the idea of delight with it.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
Conscience is wiser than science.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater
Close thine ear against him that shall open his mouth secretly against another. If thou receivest not his words, they fly back and wound the reporter. If thou dost receive them, they fly forward and wound the receiver.
 Johann Kaspar Lavater