“I wisely started with a map.”— J.R.R. Tolkien Related Quotes “Why play small? Let your greatness be evident to all.”— Lailah Gifty Akita “It’s easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it’s not as tempting or easy to just give up.”— S.A. Tawks “To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”– Simone Weil