1. Life is not fair, get used to it.
2. The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will
expect you to accomplish something before you feel good about
yourself.
3. You will not make 40 thousand dollars a year right out of high
school. You won't be a vice president with a car, until you earn
both.
4. If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
He doesn't have tenure.
5. Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your
grandparents had a different word for burger flipping; they called
it opportunity.
6. If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine
about your mistakes, learn from them.
7. Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they
are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your
clothes and listening to your talk about how cool you are. So
before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parents'
gen