Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice it whitens only the hair.