If you think you can do it, you can.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Only the educated are free.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.