Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt. РJos̩ Ortega y Gassett

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

Sweat is the cologne of accomplishment. – Heywood Hale Broun