What will matter is not your success but your significance.
Don't ask whether it is going to be easy. Ask whether it is worth it.
An ounce of action is worth a ton of good intentions.
Success comes in cans. Failures comes in can'ts.
Lincoln described character is a tree and reputation as its shadow. The tree will always be what it is but the shadow we see depends on where we stand and the angle of the light.
There's a hole in the moral ozone and it's getting bigger.