To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

After a storm comes a calm.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Well done is better than well said.