Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Well done is better than well said.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true.