Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I can, therefore I am.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.