When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.

The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a rowboat and taking tartar sauce with you.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

It is also good to love: because love is difficult. For one human being to love another human being: that is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task, the final test and proof, the work for which all other work is merely preparation. That is why young people, who are beginners in everything, are not yet capable of love: it is something they must learn.

It was a difficult and arduous task that he accepted without fanfare.