Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.