Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

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

After a storm comes a calm.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

It's always too early to quit.

Leap, and the net will appear.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.