By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Know or listen to those who know.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Well done is better than well said.
Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.