The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.