Never complain and never explain.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I can, therefore I am.
But to me the bottom line is the more education you can give yourself, and the more preparation you can do, the less chance of failing.