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If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
If your treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.
Only the mediocre are always at their best.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Our work is the presentation of our capabilities.
Action to be effective must be directed to clearly conceived ends.
Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism; the way you play it is free will.
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