It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. – Seneca –

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain – and most fools do. – Dale Carnegie

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. – Benjamin Disraeli

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly. – Corra Harris

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. – Walter Bagehot

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. – Socrates

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! – Walt Whitman

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. – Mark Twain

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. – George Bernard Shaw