To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.