Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you think you can do it, you can.
I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.