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

Procrastination is the thief of time and the enemy of success.

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

Skills are built not born.

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

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

We are all maths people : step 1 - do maths and step 2 - be a person. 

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. 

I can is 100 times more important than IQ.

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

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

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today