F. Scott Fitzgerald·1936I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'.
Ralph Waldo Emerson·1842You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.
Theodore Roosevelt·1899Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
