The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can, therefore I am.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
It's always too early to quit.
You never know what motivates you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.