If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
You never know what motivates you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
In high school, we studied a lot of poetical forms. I was really interested in the math that was involved and the strange live break ups. That gave me a great amount of respect for a rhymed stanza.