First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Well done is better than well said.

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

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

We can succeed only by concert. It is not, ‚Can any of us imagine better,‘ but, ‚Can we all do better?‘

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

I’ve always believed that success for anyone is all about drive, dedication, and desire, but for me, it’s also been about confidence and faith.

Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

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

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

Your success, or lack of success, is your responsibility. Even when you have a chain of command that you don’t like as well, its your responsibility to work with the up chain of command.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Happiness doesn’t come from being rich, nor merely from being successful in your career, nor by self-indulgence. One step towards happiness is to make yourself healthy and strong while you are a boy so that you can be useful and so you can enjoy life when you are a man.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

You know, I look like a woman but I think like a man. And in this world of business, that has helped me a lot. Because by the time they think that I don’t know what’s goin‘ on, I then got the money, and gone.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

See, winners embrace hard work.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it… Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along and you’re prepared for it.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison.

Hence it comes about that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

Building a mission and building a business go hand in hand. The primary thing that excites me is the mission. But we have always had a healthy understanding that we need to do both.

Anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

Everything rises and falls on leadership.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

We will naturally pursue our goals on the strength of our own resources, skills and enterprise. But, we know that we will be more successful when we do this in partnership with the world.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.

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

As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along.

Fame itself… doesn’t really afford you anything more than a good seat in a restaurant.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Always do whatever’s next.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?