Fortune favors the bold.

English Proverb

What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle.

Rumi

Be swift to hear, slow to speak.

Russian proverb

Hard work never killed a man.

Scottish proverb

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

Louis Nizer

Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.

Benjamin Franklin