A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. English proverb "A duty dodged is like a debt unpaid; it is only deferred, and we must come back and settle the account at last."
Joseph F. Newton "Doubt whom you will, but never yourself." Christine Bovee "There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up." Booker T. Washington "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." Ralph Waldo Emerson