""I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing.""
- Herman Melville
Courage
"It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
- Herman Melville
Creativity
"With a frigate’s anchors for my bridle-bitts and fasces of harpoons for spurs, would I could mount that whale and leap the topmost skies, to see whether the fabled heavens with all their countless tents really lie encamped beyond my mortal sight!"
- Herman Melville
Aspirations
"To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme."
- Herman Melville
Ambition
"Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
- Joshua J. Marine
Adversity
"The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it."
- Epicurus
Adversity
"It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Adversity
"The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself—the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us—that’s where it’s at."
- Jesse Owens
Adversity
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
- Frederick Douglass
Adversity