Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
It's always too early to quit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes.