Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

A lot of people are focused on taking over the world or doing the biggest thing and getting the most users. I think part of making a difference and doing something cool is focusing intensely.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

Rule number one is: Beat your team-mate.

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

We must use time as a tool, not as a couch.

Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.

I believe it is universally understood and acknowledged that all men will ever act correctly, unless they have a motive to do otherwise.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can’t find them, make them.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Well done is better than well said.

We are often raised as dependents then given over to teachers. It’s experience and exploration that can transform us and lead to mastery.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

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

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Personal success or personal satisfaction are not worth another thought if one does achieve them, or worth worrying about if they evade one or are slow in coming. All that is really worth while is action – faithful action, for the world, and in God.

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

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

I have a message to give to the world, and I shall not be thwarted.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn’t take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing. And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb. And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

People want to feel hopeful.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action.

What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

He who has courage and faith will never perish in misery!

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

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

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

The doer alone learneth.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

A part of me has become immortal, out of my control.

Success is often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

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

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

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

What keeps me motivated is love and passion.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

When a team takes ownership of its problems, the problem gets solved. It is true on the battlefield, it is true in business, and it is true in life.

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.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The best way out is always through.