If you're going through hell, keep going.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Not in the mornings, I'm always so tired in the morning.
I think that's what helped us: confidence, respect, the desire to work hard.