Competition gives me energy. It keeps me focused.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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.

The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

In this industry, there’s a lot of cases of being a competitor in one way, but you’re often a customer and a vendor in another way. It’s not atypical in aerospace. Actually, it’s not that atypical in a lot of industries.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

As is the case with most people in this game, I am driven by financial motives and creative motives; the question I had to answer is which motive I will give priority to?

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

The United States has to move very fast to even stand still.

We, we – as I say, we go in and shake up other industries and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the market.

The Bible tells us to be perfect. This is likely a scary thought for many people. It used to scare me. I didn’t think I could ever get there, no matter how hard I tried.

Whenever you do something, people try to re-do it and do a better version, especially if they’re in another country.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

If you’re entering anything where there’s an existing marketplace, against large, entrenched competitors, then your product or service needs to be much better than theirs. It can’t be a little bit better, because then you put yourself in the shoes of the consumer… you’re always going to buy the trusted brand unless there’s a big difference.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

I intend to inspire people with my story: motivate young people that grew up like myself, or even not like myself. Just, you know, go through the human experience.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Sometimes, I think if you get away from what you’re called to do, it’s more of a distraction.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

What is Champions League level? I saw a lot of rubbish games at Champions League level.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

Today, we’re very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted – all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

The best leaders understand the motivations of their team members and know their people – their lives and their families. But a leader must never grow so close to subordinates that one member of the team becomes more important than another, or more important than the mission itself.

Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.

If you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I’d wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, ‚You’re going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.‘

No pressure, no diamonds.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good times and bad, she never lost her capacity to smile and laugh, nor to inspire others with her warmth and kindness. I admired and respected her – for her energy and commitment to others, and especially for her devotion to her two boys.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

When things are going bad, don’t get all bummed out. Don’t get startled; don’t get frustrated. If you can say the word ‚good,‘ guess what? It means you’re still alive. It means you’re still breathing.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.