The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.