By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Always desire to learn something useful.
I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.