Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

He travels the fastest who travels alone.

The American does not drink at meals as a sensible man should. Indeed, he has no meals. He stuffs for ten minutes thrice a day.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.