You cannot dream yourself ...

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
 James Anthony Froude

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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

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.
 James Anthony Froude
As we advance in life, we learn the limits of our abilities.
 James Anthony Froude
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
 James Anthony Froude
English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.
 James Anthony Froude
Ignorance is the dominion of absurdity.
 James Anthony Froude