"A great man leaves clean work behind..." - Quote by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Unless you can feel when the song is doneNo other is sweet in its rhythm;Unless you can feel when left by oneThat all men else go with him.”

“All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes.”

“Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain.”

“The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever.”

“Effort is the one strictly undervalued and original contribution we make to this world.”

“Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.”

“Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.”

“No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task.”

“Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness.”