Wherever you are - be all there.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Well done is better than well said.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
It's always too early to quit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.