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

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. 

Don't be afraid to take an unfamiliar path.  Sometimes they're the ones that lead you to the best places.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

Everything you want is on the other side of fear

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

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.

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

The bad news is time flies, the good new is that you're the pilot.

Don’t be afraid to work hard and find out how good you can really be.

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.  It is the courage to continue that counts.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.