Competition is a sin.

To make an embarrassing admission, I like video games. That’s what got me into software engineering when I was a kid. I wanted to make money so I could buy a better computer to play better video games – nothing like saving the world.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

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

Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

There’s definitely going to be things that I’m not very good at, things I can improve.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

We all started playing football against our best friends, and I can’t remember a moment where, because it was my best friend, I did not want to win against him.

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

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.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

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

Want balance in your life? Then sure, get your own act together, but don’t forget four powerful disciplines of execution in your team and organization.

Today we did what we had to do. They counted on America to be passive. They counted wrong.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

We are each made for goodness, love and compassion. Our lives are transformed as much as the world is when we live with these truths.

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I’ve learned that men and women who are living wholehearted lives really allow themselves to soften into joy and happiness. They allow themselves to experience it.

The problem with writing a book in verse is, to be successful, it has to sound like you knocked it off on a rainy Friday afternoon. It has to sound easy. When you can do it, it helps tremendously because it’s a thing that forces kids to read on. You have this unconsummated feeling if you stop.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God’s help I shall succeed.

Our greatest evils flow from ourselves.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

The key to winning is choosing to do God’s will and loving others with all you’ve got.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

When you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‚em, ‚Certainly I can!‘ Then get busy and find out how to do it.

Don’t be humble… you’re not that great.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

I think my vice would be outdoing myself.

It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living.

My biggest competitor was my mum. I used to try to beat her at Chinese chequers, chess, carrom, volleyball, badminton, football, wrestling.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Facebook is in a very different place than Apple, Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Microsoft. We are trying to build a community.

All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

I was a little worried that young people would think the only game was being political and manipulative when really the bigger game is being so good at what you do that nobody can argue with your results.

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I’m not this horrible, evil person.

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

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Once we start to act, hope is everywhere. So instead of looking for hope, look for action. Then, and only then, hope will come.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

I’m always asked, ‚What’s the secret to success?‘ But there are no secrets. Be humble. Be hungry. And always be the hardest worker in the room.