William Arthur Ward
Fools act on imagination without knowledge. Pedants act on knowledge without imagination.Collection: Knowledge
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live.Collection: Climbing
Freedom's enemies are waste, lethargy, indifference, immorality, and the insidious attitude of something for nothing.Collection: Attitude
Better to master one mountain than a thousand foothills.Collection: Success
The regeneration of a sinner is an evidence of power in the highest sphere--moral nature; with the highest prerogative--to change nature; and operating to the highest result--not to create originally, which is great; but to create anew, which is greater.Collection: Spheres
The adventure of life is to learn...Collection: Adventure
The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he cannot learn, feel change, grow or live...Collection: Risk
Only the person who risks is truly free.Collection: Risk
Today’s patience can transform yesterday’s discouragements into tomorrow’s discoveries. Today’s purposes can turn yesterday’s defeats into tomorrow’s determination.Collection: Determination