This quote has no known author and is recorded as an anonymous proverb.
A line attributed to John Adams, and a statement of a very old idea that character is built by doing rather than by intending.
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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.