You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you think you can do it, you can.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.