How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use, As tho to breathe were life! – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Be great in act, as you have been in thought. –Philip, The Life and Death of King John
Things won are done; joy’s soul lies in the doing. – Cressida, Troilus and Cressida
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem. – G. K. Chesterson
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice. – Bismarck
We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist. – Queen Victoria
Can’t forget – We only get what we give. – The New Radicals
Do not, for one repulse, forego the purpose that you resolved to effect. – The Tempest
Some have relied on what they knew. Others on being simply true. What worked for them might work for you. –Robert Frost
Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate: `To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late. And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his gods? – The Lays of Ancient Rome, Macauley