Focus on progress, not perfection. Practise a little bit every day - little and often  Slow and steady wins the race.

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

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

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

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

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

We all make mistakes. What matters is how we choose to move forwards from them.

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

Skills are built not born.

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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