After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.
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.