Skills are built not born.

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

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

It doesn’t matter where you start, it matters how you end

99% of genius comes from hard work, the remaining 1% comes from innate talent

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

I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. The most powerful warriors are patience and time.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

1.00³⁶⁵=1 and 1.01³⁶⁵=37.7. Doing nothing at all versus small steps at a time. 

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

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.