By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
That is a secondary teacher conception - the writer as an observer.