Inspirational lines on hard work ... the hardest part !!

For someone who loves to strike a balance among the passion for profession, love for playing and creating music, appetite for scriptural and general reading, desire to get into great physical shape, spiritual and community indulgences, affinity for friends / family and love for travelling etc., throwing an MBA into the already maddening potpourri makes things woefully painful. You bet me, it is. I have therefore sought solace in the following inspirational lines to egg me on and recast my agenda to make space for the newcomer in the room.

You don't have to be great to start,
But you have to start to be great.
--Zig Zagler

You must not only aim right,
But draw the bow with all your might.
--Henry David Thoreau

The heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained in single flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling secretly into the night.
--Anonymous

When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest! if you must; but don't you quit.
--Edgar A. Guest

A free lunch is only found in mousetraps.
--John Capuzzi

The next best thing to winning is losing!
At least you've been in the race.
--Nellie Hershey Tullis

We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
--Aristotle

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.
--Leonardo Da Vinci