There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

If you really want something you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.

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.

You can hire a tutor but you can't hire someone to practice for you.

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

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

Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today. If today you have no time, it means tomorrow you'll be too tired and the next day you'll be something else.

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

Dreams don't work unless you do.

"I" not them. Be the best version of you.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

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. 

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.