If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

Every man who has at last succeeded, after long effort, in calling up the divinity which lies hidden in a woman’s heart, is startled to find that he must obey the God he summoned.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Hey, I think it’s easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it’s a much greater accomplishment. That’s hard.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‚Why god? Why me?‘ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‚There’s just something about you that pisses me off.‘

Celebrity is the chastisement of merit and the punishment of talent.

I’ve had quite a lot of luck with dreams. I’ve often awoken in the night with a phrase or even a whole song in my head.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big.

No one lives long enough to learn everything they need to learn starting from scratch. To be successful, we absolutely, positively have to find people who have already paid the price to learn the things that we need to learn to achieve our goals.

I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

Whatever good things we build end up building us.

I could give a flying flip about doing promo because, no disrespect, nobody put me in the position that I’m in.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

I think my worst problem is actually living in the moment and understanding everything that’s going on. I feel like I’m in my own bubble.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

My mother was and will always remain my greatest hero.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

I don’t look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

The smart thing in the art world is to have one good idea and never have another.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

Well, I think that there’s a very thin dividing line between success and failure. And I think if you start a business without financial backing, you’re likely to go the wrong side of that dividing line.

Success is not greedy, as people think, but insignificant. That is why it satisfies nobody.

You can’t do it unless you can imagine it.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.

The only things worth learning are the things you learn after you know it all.

You can’t go backward in life.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn’t really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I’m trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

People can cry much easier than they can change.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

Founding a company is hard. Most of it isn’t smooth. You’ll have to make very hard decisions. You have to fire a few people. Therefore, if you don’t believe in your mission, giving up is easy. The majority of founders give up. But the best founders don’t give up.

Did you know there’s a difference between being busy and being fruitful? Did you ever stop to think that just being busy – running around in circles all day but not accomplishing anything – is the same as wasting your time? It’s frustrating to expend so much energy and time and not have any fruit from your effort!

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.