Success is the sum of small repeated efforts, day in and day out.

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

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

Hard work - a two way street where you get exactly what you put in.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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

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

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

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.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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

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

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

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