The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Know or listen to those who know.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

If you think you can do it, you can.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.