Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
You never know what motivates you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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 My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.