Skills are built not born.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. Rome wasn't built in a day, but they worked on it every single day. 

The easiest person to deceive is yourself.

I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

A book a day keeps the stupidity away.

Hard work always pays off - it is not a question of if you will get there, but WHEN you will get there

We all have two lives. The second begins when we realise we only have one. 

Everything that happens was once a dream.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

He who has begun his task is half-way done. Have the courage to begin!

Instead of finding reasons why you can't, find reasons why you can.

If you can understand just one thing thoroughly, then you will understand everything.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.