Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.