This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
Usually attributed to Muhammad Ali, who said it in a slightly different form. It is the difference between measuring a life and spending it.
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Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.
The harder you fight for something, the greater you feel when you achieve it.
Do not gloat in victory; it is the surest way to invite the next defeat.