Skills are built not born.

Failure to prepare = preparing to fail

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

Just stick with it, what seems hard now will one day be your warm up.

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

Don't be afraid to take an unfamiliar path.  Sometimes they're the ones that lead you to the best places.

There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.

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.

If you really want something you’ll find a way. If you don’t you’ll find an excuse.

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

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

Fall down seven times, stand up eight.

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

It is never too late to become what you might have been

GCSE and A Level Maths are a marathon not a sprint