Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
It's always too early to quit.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.