To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
It's always too early to quit.
Well done is better than well said.
I hate to play the I-live-in-the-country card, but it really takes all of the 'pack the kids into the car and run from here to there' out of the equation.