The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's always too early to quit.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
That Germany was so immensely strong and Austria so dependent upon German strength that the word and will of Germany would at the critical moment be decisive with Austria.