STICK TO YOUR TASK

Stick to your task till it sticks to you;
 Beginners are many, but enders are few.
 Honour, power, place, and praise
 Will come, in time, to the one who stays.
Stick to your task till it sticks to you;
Bend at it, sweat at it, smile at it too;
For out of the bend and the sweat and the smile
Will come life’s victories, after awhile.
— Anonymous  

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Winds of Fate
 One ship drives east and another drives west
 With the self-same winds that blow;
’This the set of the sails
  And not the gales
 That tells them the way to go.
 Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate
As we voyage along through life;
‘This the set of the soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox