“One cannot consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.”
“Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.”
“One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned: and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.”
“This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling”
“It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing.”