Walter Savage Landor on motivation and goals

Absence and death are the same⁠—only that in death there is no suffering.

‘Tis verse that gives
Immortal youth to mortal maids.

Little men in lofty places, who throw long shadows, because our sun is setting.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Do, or do not. There is no ‘try.’

Never give in⁠—never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.

Winston Churchill1874–1965Speech given at Harrow School, Harrow, England, October 29, 1941. Quoted in Churchill by Himself (2008), ed. Langworth, PublicAffairs, 2008, p. 23