By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Know or listen to those who know.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
However, if a poem can be reduced to a prose sentence, there can't be much to it.
Well, if this is poetry, I'm certainly never going to write any myself.