Those who have a why to live, can bear with almost any how.
—— Friedrich Nietzsche (Quoted by Viktor E. Frankl in Man's Search for Meaning)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion.
—— Henry David Thoreau
Work ethic eliminates fear.
—— Michael Jordan
Was I a little full of myself at 19? Sure I was. I think you have to be to do anything important.
—— Michael Dell
高筑墙，广积粮，缓称王。
—— 朱申 (致明太祖朱元璋)，《明史·列传·卷二十四》
为其奠定其统一天下的战略方针，为建立大明朝奠定了坚实的基础；稳扎稳打、韬光养晦的经典策略