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

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

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

There is no talent here. There is hard work and obsession. You could be anyone if you put in the time.

You can be shown the path, but only you can make the first step.

Life is full of opportunities. With every opportunity that is missed, another one is born.

Do what you have always done and you will always be what you have always been

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than the things you did do

Mathematics Is not a spectator sport. The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics.

Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before.

I can is 100 times more important than IQ.

Don't expect to be good at maths or understand things straight away. Be patient and persistent. The most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today

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