To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I think this is what hooks one to gardening: it is the closest one can come to being present at creation.
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.