You can have results or excuses, not both

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

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

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. 

Hope might be a good breakfast, but it makes a very poor dinner

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

Everything you want is on the other side of fear

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 cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

Instead of finding reasons why you can't, find reasons why you can.

Nobody said it’d be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

You're not in competition with anyone but yourself. Outdo your past, not other people.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift—that's why it's called 'the present

A book a day keeps the stupidity away.