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

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

I can is 100 times more important than IQ.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. 

Dreams don't work unless you do.

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

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. 

It is never too late to turn an unproductive day into a productive one.

Success is the sum of small repeated efforts, day in and day out.

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

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

Everything you want is on the other side of fear

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.