The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
You never know what motivates you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
As though there were a tie And obligation to posterity. We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse: What has posterity done for us. That we, lest they their rights should lose, Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?