Courage is exhilarating. - Eleanor Roosevelt

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give

Love can often be misguided and do as much harm as good, but respect can do only good. It assumes that the other person's stature is as large as one's own, his rights as reasonable, his needs as important.

Get ahead of whom? There is no one I want to shove past. I just want to get ahead of myself, make myself as big as I can, but not measure myself by someone else.