--- title: "12 Way Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee" description: "12 Way quotes by Christian Nestell Bovee. Plus more from Christian Nestell Bovee and more Way sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and_562963.png" --- > [Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and-men-of-thought-are-half-way/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and_562963.png) > [The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. Thought finds its way into action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/the-greatest-events-of-an-age-are-its-best-thoughts-thought-finds-its/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c8f/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_the-greatest-events-of-an-age-are-its-be_299397.png) > [We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/we-make-way-for-the-man-who-boldly-pushes-past-us/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bff/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_men_we-make-way-for-the-man-who-boldly-pushe_1617352.png) > [To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/to-death-we-owe-our-life-the-passing-of-one-generation-opens-a-way/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c69/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_death_to-death-we-owe-our-life-the-passing-of_595214.png) > [It is the nature of thought to find its way into action.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/it-is-the-nature-of-thought-to-find-its-way-into-action/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ed/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_it-is-the-nature-of-thought-to-find-its_2021453.png) > [A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/a-profusion-of-fancies-and-quotations-is-out-of-place-in-a-love/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b0/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_deviate_a-profusion-of-fancies-and-quotations-is_3132907.png) > [Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/many-an-honest-man-practices-upon-himself-an-amount-of-deceit/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0d/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_amount_many-an-honest-man-practices-upon-himsel_2162397.png) > [Poverty is only contemptible when it is felt to be so. Doubtless the best way to make our poverty respectable is to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/poverty-is-only-contemptible-when-it-is-felt-to-be-so-doubtless-the/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/934/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_best-way_poverty-is-only-contemptible-when-it-is_2786304.png) > [There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/there-is-no-sense-of-weariness-like-that-which-closes-in-a-day-of/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_appetite_there-is-no-sense-of-weariness-like-that_2438588.png) > [Ideas are like matter, infinitely divisible. It is not given to us to get down so to speak to their final atoms,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/ideas-are-like-matter-infinitely-divisible-it-is-not-given-to-us-to/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/84b/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_atoms_ideas-are-like-matter-infinitely-divisib_1766867.png) > [Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/every-trait-of-beauty-may-be-referred-to-some-virtue-as-to-innocence/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f02/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_appreciation_every-trait-of-beauty-may-be-referred-to_2150356.png) > [It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/it-is-difficult-to-say-which-is-the-greatest-evil-to-have-too-violent/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe4/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_character_it-is-difficult-to-say-which-is-the-grea_708391.png) ## Other authors on Way ## More by Christian Nestell Bovee > [What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/what-is-taken-from-the-fortune-also-may-haply-be-so-much-lifted-from/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to be able to quote another's wit.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/the-next-best-thing-to-being-witty-one-s-self-is-to-be-able-to-be/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [There are ceremonious bows that repel one like a cudgel.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/there-are-ceremonious-bows-that-repel-one-like-a-cudgel/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/there-are-some-weaknesses-that-are-peculiar-and-distinctive-to/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/a-genuine-passion-is-like-a-mountain-stream-it-admits-of-no/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [Our courage is greater to dare a visible than an imagined danger. A visible danger rouses our energies to meet or avert it; a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/our-courage-is-greater-to-dare-a-visible-than-an-imagined-danger-a/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [A good thought is indeed a great boon, for which God is to be first thanked; next he who is the first to utter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/a-good-thought-is-indeed-a-great-boon-for-which-god-is-to-be-first/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [We should not so much esteem our poverty as a misfortune, were it not that the world treats it so much as a crime](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/we-should-not-so-much-esteem-our-poverty-as-a-misfortune-were-it-not/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/he-has-but-one-great-fear-that-fears-to-do-wrong/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [Six traits of effective leaders: 1. Make others feel important 2. Promote a vision 3. Follow the golden rule 4. Admit mistakes 5. Criticize…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/six-traits-of-effective-leaders-1-make-others-feel-important-2/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/in-a-contest-with-a-weaker-party-it-is-more-honorable-to-yield-than/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [Wit is better as a seasoning than as a whole dish by itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/wit-is-better-as-a-seasoning-than-as-a-whole-dish-by-itself/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [To cultivate a garden is. . . to go hand in hand with Nature in some of her most beautiful processes, to learn something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/to-cultivate-a-garden-is-to-go-hand-in-hand-with-nature-in-some-of/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [It is with a company as it is with a punch, everything depends upon the ingredients of which it in composed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/it-is-with-a-company-as-it-is-with-a-punch-everything-depends-upon/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) > [It is not the number of facts he knows, but how much of a fact he is himself, that proves the man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/it-is-not-the-number-of-facts-he-knows-but-how-much-of-a-fact-he-is/) [Christian Nestell Bovee](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christian-nestell-bovee/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/way/christian-nestell-bovee/#itemlist", "name": "12 Way Quotes By Christian Nestell Bovee", "numberOfItems": 12, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Christian Nestell Bovee" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christian-nestell-bovee/dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and-men-of-thought-are-half-way/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and_562963.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and_562963.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/aa2/christian-nestell-bovee-1003_action_dreamers-are-half-way-men-of-thought-and_562963.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Dreamers are half-way men of thought, and men of thought are half-way men of action.” — Christian Nestell Bovee", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The greatest events of an age are its best thoughts. 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