By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

If you're going through hell, keep going.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

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

Know or listen to those who know.