The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.