By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Leap, and the net will appear.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.