The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Intensity like signal strength will generally fall off with distance from the source, although it also depends on the local conditions and the pathway from the source to the point.