Who seeks shall find.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?