The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.