The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.