Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.