To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.