A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Profession: Poet
Nationality: German

Some suggestions for you :
Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.
Character in great and little things means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Beware of wishing anything in youth, because you will get it in middle age.
Who is sure of their own motives can in confidence advance or retreat.