By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Only the educated are free.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's always too early to quit.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Well done is better than well said.
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.