No one starts out on top. You have to work your way up.

There is no elevator to success, you have to take the stairs.

Practice makes comfort. Expand your experiences regularly so every stretch won't feel like your first.

Our fixed mindset builds our cage, fear keeps us in it.

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. 

Mathematics Is not a spectator sport. The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

Work on your weaknesses until they are your strengths and work on your strengths until they are second nature.

Good mathematics is not about how many answers you know... It is about how you behave when you don't know.

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. If today you have no time, it means tomorrow you'll be too tired and the next day you'll be something else.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.

Focus on progress, not perfection. Practise a little bit every day - little and often  Slow and steady wins the race.