He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him. – Proverb

Its the constant and determined effort that breaks down resistance, sweeps away all obstacles. – Claude M. Bristol

We lack resolve and blame fate, mistaking the drift for the tides. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl