Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you think you can do it, you can.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Well done is better than well said.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.