If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
I think intelligence is usually sexy until it becomes irritating. After that, you're stuck.