The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
My mother was predominately a stay-at-home mom.