Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.