Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.