Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Well done is better than well said.

Who seeks shall find.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Leap, and the net will appear.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.