There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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

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

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

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help, and brave enough to ask for it.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

Pure mathematics is in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

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. 

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

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Run in the morning before your body figures out what you're doing

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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.