To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school.