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

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

The greatest enemy to human potential is your comfort zone

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Run in the morning before your body figures out what you're doing

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

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

Dreams don't work unless you do.

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

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.