"It is sometimes a mistake to make the climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt. If you climb, you can either succeed or fall. But there is a third option: Sometimes when you fall, you find out you can fly."
 –NG
(via Benjamin LaBrot, founder of Floating Doctors)

"A wish has been defined as a 'goal with no energy behind it.' Hope is not a strategy."
~ Brian Tracy

I don't like work... but I like what is in work -- the chance to find yourself. Your own reality -- for yourself, not for others -- which no other man can ever know.

-- Joseph Conrad

"One must work and dare if one really wants to live." 
~ Vincent Van Gogh

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine." 
(Buddha) 

"There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."

-- Aldous Huxley (1864-1963)

"Your work is to discover your work - and then with all your heart to give yourself to it."

(Buddha)

"See the job. Do the job. Stay out of misery."

~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

"Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."

(William Shakespeare)