Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
You never know what motivates you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.