Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Successful people are simply those with successful habits.

Hope is a waking dream.

I know that I always wanted things. I was always proud of my people, proud of my home, but I always wanted more. I think most people do.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

I can’t ever remember sitting around and saying, ‚gosh let’s hurry up and get these debates going, that’ll win it for me.‘ Nope.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.

If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance.

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

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.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

If anything is good for pounding humility into you permanently, it’s the restaurant business.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

It was clear to me that if I could get through Princeton at the top of my class, I could do anything in the world.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

I’m a fighter, I’m a winner, and I’m not interested in just battling my team-mate for the back of the grid.

I want to challenge you today to get out of your comfort zone. You have so much incredible potential on the inside. God has put gifts and talents in you that you probably don’t know anything about.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something.

If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.

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

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There’s plenty of movement, but you never know if it’s going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It’s not about money. It’s about the people you have, how you’re led, and how much you get it.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

It is natural to want to have a future.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we’ve worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

If anyone remembers me, it’s about my hard work.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

If at first you don’t succeed, then skydiving definitely isn’t for you.

Marines don’t know how to spell the word ‚defeat‘.

I just was never into performing. It’s just hard work. It’s hard work.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

I am results-oriented.

Over a 10-year period, 99 out of 100 new entrepreneurs will fail. Only one will be left standing as others get pushed out of the market or burn out from working so hard. It’s really sad.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.