Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

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

Know or listen to those who know.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.