Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense.