The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.