To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
It's always too early to quit.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.