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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

There are no bad mistakes in maths, only discoveries.

Nothing is impossible if you want it badly enough. Impossible = I'm possible.

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

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.

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

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.

Hard work - a two way street where you get exactly what you put in.

Dreams don't work unless you do.

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

I had no time is no excuse. 1 hour is 4% of your day and 1 minute is 0.34 % of your day.

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

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