Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Know or listen to those who know.
Well done is better than well said.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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?