Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Never complain and never explain.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Only the educated are free.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.