Never stop fighting until you arrive at your destined place – that is, the unique you. Have an aim in life, continuously acquire knowledge, work hard, and have perseverance to realise the great life.

I’ll never, ever be full. I’ll always be hungry. Obviously, I’m not talking about food. Growing up, I had nothing for such a long time. Someone told me a long time ago, and I’ve never forgotten it, ‚Once you’ve ever been hungry, really, really hungry, then you’ll never, ever be full.‘

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

If you can be mentally stimulated by the workout and find out how to get through it, it’s more fun.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.

Our goal is to make it so there’s as little friction as possible to having a social experience.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

While we should never give up our principles, we must also realize that we cannot maintain our principles unless we survive.

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

In all seriousness, people think that it’s the ideas that are important. Well, everyone has ideas, all the time. I tend to write mine down and remember them, but at some point you have to apply the bum to the seat and knock out about sixty five thousand words – that’s how long a novel is.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.

This industry has been really good to me. It’s been a great life. I’m not through yet. I’m ready when you are, Mr. DeMille.

Do your job. Do it the best you can. Do it right, because somebody, sometimes your best friend, is waiting for you to screw up so she can take your place.

Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

It’s honestly true that money means nothing to me.

Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.

What is common sense isn’t common practice.

I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people around the world.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.

No matter what, people grow. If you chose not to grow, you’re staying in a small box with a small mindset. People who win go outside of that box. It’s very simple when you look at it.

I will do this job as long as I feel that I can do it full steam.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

People have this capacity within them to set the world straight.

There are no second acts in American lives.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy.

I wasn’t that great a chef, and I don’t think I’m that great a writer.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

It is a most delightful reflection that if I come to the throne of God in prayer, I may feel a thousand defects, but yet there is hope. I usually feel more dissatisfied with my prayers than with anything else I do.

You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Forget the past.