Work ethic is important, because, unlike intelligence, athleticism, or charisma, or any natural attribute, it’s a choice.

Try and do one thing each day that you would really rather not do.

Tomorrow is worth more than yesterday but less than today.

Nothing is impossible if you want it badly enough. Impossible = I'm possible.

The wise person knows that no answer is also an answer

You can hire a tutor but you can't hire someone to practice for you.

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come.

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

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. 

There is great wisdom in being able to realise that you don’t understand something before it goes too far.

Hope might be a good breakfast, but it makes a very poor dinner

We are all maths people : step 1 - do maths and step 2 - be a person. 

The temptation to quit will be the greatest when you are about to succeed

I can is 100 times more important than IQ.