This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
A proverb that treats speech as the first step in a chain of events, which is a fair description of how encouragement usually works.
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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 work for something, the greater you will feel when you achieve it.