Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.