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

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.

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

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. 

The power of reflection is the most powerful skill you’ll learn.

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

The easiest person to deceive is yourself.

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

You're not in competition with anyone but yourself. Outdo your past, not other people.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the things you did do

You cannot start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.

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

The boxer is not afraid of being knocked down, he is afraid of not being able to get up again.

The greatest glory in loving lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

The road to success is like a staircase. If you want to succeed, double your failure rate