Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

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.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

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

It’s always appealing to play a character that has to overcome himself as well as an obstacle. It makes the drama so much deeper.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.

I came to New York to be a fine artist – that was my ambition.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

And when a woman’s will is as strong as the man’s who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

I used to feel unsafe right in the moment of an accomplishment – I felt the ground fall from under my feet because this could be the end. And even now, while everyone is celebrating, I’m on to the next thing. I don’t want to get lost in this big cushion of success.

I had nothing growing up, but I always wanted to be ‚sexy,‘ even before I knew what the word was.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage.

Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

Irrespective of whether you have talent or not, one has to work hard. Just being talented doesn’t mean anything; you can end up wasting it before you realize.

Success is always dangerous, and we need to be alert and avoid becoming the victims of our own success. Will we influence the world for Christ, or will the world influence us?

The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

The American people are so much stronger, so much more resolved than any enemy can fully understand.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

I can die a happy man never having been president of the United States of America. But it doesn’t mean I won’t run.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

Sometimes I wonder why I’m a novelist right now. There is no definite career reason why I became a writer. Something happened, and I became a writer. And now I’m a successful writer.