By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Know or listen to those who know.

If you think you can do it, you can.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Well done is better than well said.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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