You are treading your path of greatness: now it must call up all your courage that there is no longer a path behind you!
You are treading your path of greatness: no one shall steal after you here! Your foot itself has extinguished the path behind you, and above that path stands written: Impossibility.

I know of no better life purpose than to perish in attempting the great and the impossible. . . .

But for every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the "work," whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; "great men," as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction

Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness

All great things must first wear terrifying and monstrous masks in order to inscribe themselves on the hearts of humanity.