After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Never complain and never explain.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Who seeks shall find.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?