Human development thus far has been fueled and guided by the feeling that things could be, and are probably going to be, better.

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.

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.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

I have dreams, and I want to see them come to fruition.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

Greece needs to work on a cleaner image. It’s a big problem, as they have this reputation of being so corrupt.

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

Big results require big ambitions.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

It is natural to want to have a future.

Success has always been a great liar.

A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances.

God’s desire is that we excel.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will’s freedom after it.

Successful people will always tell you you can do something. It’s the people who have never accomplished anything who will always discourage you from trying to achieve excellent things.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

We are going to transform Britain’s rail system from the worst in the world to the best. If you can do a few things like that, when the body gives out, you can say you’ve lived a good life.

Innovation is a good thing. The human condition – put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes – is improving because of innovation.

What one has to do usually can be done.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

Some people, they take their form of working out as a religion that they think is better than everyone else’s. I’m not like that. If you have a better way to work out, and you can teach it to me, and I find it to be useful and gets me in better shape, I’m all about.

Most people already know what they’re doing wrong. When I get them to church I want to tell them that you can change.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

If an idea isn’t exciting, you shouldn’t do it.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight… the truly wise person is colorblind.

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.

I wasn’t born a natural entrepreneur. I had to be trained.

They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

A lot of football success is in the mind. You must believe you are the best and then make sure that you are.

With the introduction of agriculture mankind entered upon a long period of meanness, misery, and madness, from which they are only now being freed by the beneficent operation of the machine.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

To innovate is not to reform.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.