For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when God sends a cheerful hour, refrains.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

Time doesn't wait for anyone, but you always have to wait for time.

True worth is doing each day some little good not dreaming of great things to do by and by.

Every worthwhile accomplishment big or little has its stages of drudgery and triumph a beginning a struggle and a victory.

For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.

The strip of earthy, faintly visible outside the window, was running faster now, blending into a gray stream. Through the dry phrases of calculations in her mind, she noticed that she did have time to feel something: it was the hard, exhilarating pleasure of action.

Throughout his life, whenever he became convinced that a course of action was right, the desire to follow it had come automatically.

There is no excuse for not trying.

But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.

Whatever you do won't be enough, I heard their voices say. Try anyway.

But by the end of two years, most have either changed careers or moved to suburban schools - a consequence of low pay, a lack of support from the educational bureaucracy, and a pervasive feeling of isolation.