Well done is better than well said.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.