There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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

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. 

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

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

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

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

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

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

Procrastination is the thief of time and the enemy of success.

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

Don’t confuse your path with your destination. Just because its stormy now doesn’t mean you are headed for failure.

You can have results or excuses, not both

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

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