Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.