To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.