Energy and persistence conquer all things.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

O, you men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem that way to you, and I would have ended my life – it was only my art that held me back. Ah, it seemed impossible to leave the world until I had brought forth all that I felt was within me.

When I do something, I do it full steam ahead.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

You can’t knock on opportunity’s door and not be ready.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Not having hope is not an excuse for not doing something.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.

I could never identify with that word, ‚weak.‘

Racing, competing, it’s in my blood. It’s part of me, it’s part of my life; I have been doing it all my life and it stands out above everything else.

Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom.

In my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.

I just think it is important that you realize, that you’re the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you’re libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Sometimes I’m fascinated with how famous my work could be while I’m not so famous.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Exercise is labor without weariness.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

I believe that when you think of the negative, and you get up discouraged – ‚There’s nothing good in my future‘ – I really believe it almost ties the hands of God. God works where there’s an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

That nice, soft pillow and the warm blanket, and it’s all comfortable, and no one wants to leave that comfort – but if you can wake up early in the morning, get a head start on everyone else that’s still sleeping, get productive time doing things that you need to do – that’s a huge piece to moving your life forward.

You were not created to just get by with an average, unrewarding, or unfulfilling life. God created you to leave your mark on this generation.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger’s skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I just feel like, with rappers, there’s so much complacency. It’s like, ‚Oh, I’m a rapper. I’m successful. I make money. That’s all that matters.‘ But there’s a lot of stuff going on in the world. Whether or not you’re aware of it, it’s happening.

I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn’t write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.

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

When you create circumstances together, when you try everything, then you can lose. But you need to show the importance.

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

Until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect.

I remember talking with Arcade Fire after their first record, when they were getting all kinds of offers from major labels, and I don’t think I gave them any advice. They survived that whole onslaught pretty well anyway without me.

Once you begin to fall off the track and believe you breathe different air to everyone else, you’re doomed; you’re finished.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

With Kansas, I had a four-year deal. The initial two months were real tough. I had to adjust a lot. Then, things started looking up.

Man is not made for defeat.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

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.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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.

A record deal doesn’t make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.

If you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

If you look at my life, generally, I’ve been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

Diligence is the mother of good luck.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

I try to not focus on what people expect from me.

No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.