Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
You never know what motivates you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.