I will consider each day’s effort as but one blow of my blade against a mighty oak. - Og Mandino

I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind infects me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep my eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows.

the rewards are great if one succeeds but the rewards are great only because so few succeed.

most of them are already so puffed up with their imagined importance that they have no idea how silly they sound.