Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.
Seneca
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backward. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
Steve Jobs
What do you have to lose? You’ve already been given so much! I mean, what? A chance you’ll fail? There is no failure. The fact you’re here means you’re living out the biggest success story there ever was. Whatever you want in life, as long as you remain virtuous, go for it. You seriously have nothing to lose; you've already won! No matter what circumstances you were born into, you can always do your best; that’s all that matters. The outcome is the least important aspect of achievement. What’s noteworthy is the person you had to become and the misfortunes you had to endure; if you never got the outcome you wanted, you’re still one hell of a person.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
Winston S. Churchill
For myself I recognize my success in the pursuit of, not in the completion of, because having ascertained whatever it is, we'll no longer be in the pursuit of and this ceasing, this satisfaction with oneself, this is my definition of failure. This is why I chose to pursue something that will be unachievable until I draw my last breath, this pursuit is greatness in all that I do therefore my success is a product of the pursuit thereof
Harvonson