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

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. 

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

It doesn’t matter where you start, it matters how you end

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

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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

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

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

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

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

We all make mistakes. What matters is how we choose to move forwards from them.

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

Focus on progress, not perfection. Practise a little bit every day - little and often  Slow and steady wins the race.

Everything you want is on the other side of fear