We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict. – Plato

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger. – Confucius

Love and desire are the spirits wings to great deeds. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe