Do you find yourself making excuses when you do not perform? Shed the excuses and face reality. Excuses are the loser's way out. They will mar your credibility and stunt your personal growth.

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

All looks yellow to the jaundiced eye. [and therefore the solution is to fix the jaundiced eye.]

Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense.

The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man's own eyes when they look upon his own person.

Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry.

Thou wert my guide, philosopher, and friend.