"Right now, you are making a choice..."

"Right now, you are making a choice.  It may not seem like a large and terrible choice, but in the long term, it may well be.  You are choosing whether you will be the master of your own fate, with the power to create what you will from the world - or whether you will simply... get by.  Unremarkable.  Complacent.  Mediocre.

Mediocrity is a terrible fate."

From the latest Harry Dresden novel - Ghost Story.  Good read, btw.