He shines in the second rank, who is eclipsed in the first.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

A home without books is a body without soul.

I just have always felt that people don’t change, circumstances change.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

You must take action now that will move you towards your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose.

The final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.

Wow, I get to wake up again? Ok. You have to make good with what you’ve got.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I’m a big believer in doing things that make you uncomfortable. So, we live in a world where we want to be as comfortable as we can. And we wonder why we have no growth. We wonder why – when the smallest thing in our life gets difficult – we wonder why we cower and we run away.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

Must is a hard nut to crack, but it has a sweet kernel.

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.

To act is to be committed, and to be committed is to be in danger.

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

No man is hurt but by himself.

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The Mind that lies fallow but a single Day, sprouts up in Follies that are only to be killed by a constant and assiduous Culture.

I am just one human being.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

I’m not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues.

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What’s the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.

We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

A warrior is not a person that carries a gun. The biggest war you ever go through is right between your own ears. It’s in your mind. We’re all going through a war in our mind, and we have to callus our mind to fight that war and to win that war.

They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning.

The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.

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

I hate what I look like on TV, and I want to look better, and nothing makes the mothers more jealous.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

In war there is no prize for runner-up.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

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

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.