Source: The Church: A Comedy in Five Acts
On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE
“Genius begins beautiful works, but only labor finishes them.”
Le génie commence les beaux ouvrages, mais le travail seul les achève.
Attributed to Goethe by popular British novelist Marie Corelli in her essay "The Spirit of Work" as published in The Queen's Christmas carol : an anthology of poems, stories, essays, drawings and music / by British authors, artists and composers in 1905 by The Daily Mail of London.
Attributed to Goethe by William Hutchinson Murray, in his book The Scottish Himalayan Expedition (1951), this has been shown to be a misattribution at "German Myth 12: The Famous 'Goethe' Quotation", Answer.com http://german.about.com/library/blgermyth12.htm and "Popular Quotes: Commitment", Goethe Society of North America http://www.goethesociety.org/pages/quotescom.html
Misattributed
Variant: Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”
Source: Countdown
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
Source: Nocturnes
“You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.”
Preface p. vi
A History of Greek Mathematics (1921) Vol. 1. From Thales to Euclid
Source: Captain Blood (1922), Ch. IX: "The Rebels-Convict"
