Well done is better than well said.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.