The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Never complain and never explain.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.