To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe.