Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
"If you are being used, piece by piece and day by day, to construct your own replacement, then moderating this process is hardly going to be adequate." - Paul Kingsnorth
"Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intentions, sincere effort, and intelligent execution." - Aristotle
"My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius... loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son. Husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next." - Gladiator
"He who knows only his own side of the case, knowns little of that." - John Stuart Mill