If you think you can do it, you can.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.