"I have accomplished far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it happened to me without my ever seeking it."

Audrey Hepburn

“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

J. K. Rowling, Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

"That which we persist in doing becomes easier, not that the task itself has become easier, but that our ability to perform it has improved."

Ralph Waldo Emerson