Never underestimate the importance of small steps. small steps = big changes. 

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

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

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

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

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.

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. 

We learn more from failure than we do from success.

You can pick up a mistake and carry it as a burden,  or you can set it down as use it as a stepping stone to greatness.

Skills are built not born.

He who has begun his task is half-way done. Have the courage to begin!

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

No matter how bad it gets, you’re still way ahead of those who haven’t even started.

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