Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.

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 fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.

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

Time is your friend, impulse is your enemy.

The temptation to quit will be the greatest when you are about to succeed

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

FAIL - First Attempt In Learning

Success is not final, failure is not fatal.  It is the courage to continue that counts.

Don't fear failure, fear being in the same exact same place next year as you are now.

The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

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

Try and do one thing each day that you would really rather not do.

Procrastination makes easy things hard and hard things harder.