Do the best you can, and don’t take life too serious.

Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

It doesn’t matter if you want to be a teacher, an astronaut, or a reggaeton singer, you need to study.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

We must act out passion before we can feel it.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

My superhero has always been Tendulkar, and it will be Tendulkar for life. He is someone who has inspired me immensely. Just watching him play for India, I used to dream of winning games for India, because he used to do it single handedly.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

I think sometimes the critics want me to beat people down, and that’s not in me. I want to lift people up.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

I’m very type-A, and many things in my life are about control and domination, but eating should be a submissive experience, where you let down your guard and enjoy the ride.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

I don’t have many sad days.

If you’re waiting for the perfect moment, you’ll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There’s nothing foolproof.

I say there’re no depressed words just depressed minds.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Pretension is a poor joke that you play on yourself. Snap out of it. Recognise your strengths, work on your weaknesses. Real achievement is liking what you see in the mirror every morning.

From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.

While there’s life, there’s hope.

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

The most positive men are the most credulous.

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.

To those of you who received honours, awards and distinctions, I say well done. And to the C students, I say you, too, can be president of the United States.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.

Everybody has goals, aspirations or whatever, and everybody has been at a point in their life where nobody believed in them.

Right discipline consists, not in external compulsion, but in the habits of mind which lead spontaneously to desirable rather than undesirable activities.

I’m living in the present, thinking about the past, hoping for the future.

My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn’t mean I don’t get frustrated in my life.

Always have something beautiful in sight, even if it’s just a daisy in a jelly glass.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.

To not follow your passion in life is a recipe for failure and unhappiness.

I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

You’ve got to have faith in what you’re doing and not take no for an answer.

Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.

I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it’s so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

We don’t mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.

Everyone, no doubt, remains first and foremost a man of his own country and continues to draw from it his motive force.