What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
You never know what motivates you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.