The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
Know or listen to those who know.
Sometimes there is a greater lack of communication in facile talking than in silence.
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations.