Getting out of bed is like the foundation of the discipline, and I think it carries over into everything else.

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture.

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

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

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

Chaotic action is preferable to orderly inaction.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.

No one can give you better advice than yourself.

Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

I’m not a person that socializes very well.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Music is really driving my whole life.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

The formation of one’s character ought to be everyone’s chief aim.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

Time is money.

To learn something but not to do is really not to learn. To know something but not to do is really not to know.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

If there are people you haven’t forgiven, you’re not going to really awaken. You have to let go.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

I pity the fool who just gives up.

To lead people walk behind them.

My mother was a powerful influence. She made me toe the line. If I didn’t have a perfect report card, she showed her disappointment.

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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.

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 you go to work on your goals, your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan, your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.

It is easier to be critical than correct.

A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

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

I know I want to always do the best I can.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

I’m not going to fight because I mean too much to our team, and I can’t afford to be suspended for a game or do something stupid to get me kicked out of a playoff game.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Life is a lively process of becoming.

Learning about climate change triggered my depression in the first place. But it was also what got me out of my depression, because there were things I could do to improve the situation. I don’t have time to be depressed anymore.

I think it’s quite great to set yourself a big challenge, and then you’ve got another reason for keeping fit.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

I’m sure that at no point in my life could I ever have shown the kind of focus and discipline and commitment necessary to work a station at elBulli or Le Bernardin. No. That ain’t me.

So much of what we do every single day is the result of habits that we have formed over time.

Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal ‚security,‘ those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists – they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

The man who has no imagination has no wings.