I couldn’t ever go back home without being something. I probably would never have gone back home. That was definitely a big motivation. To get back home, and not empty-handed.

Let go of yesterday.

A lot of times I find that people who are blessed with the most talent don’t ever develop that attitude, and the ones who aren’t blessed in that way are the most competitive and have the biggest heart.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

I’m convinced that no one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

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

If you want to be enthusiastic, act enthusiastic.

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.

I am not happy, and the quest for happiness as a principal objective is not part of my world. Of course, ever since I can remember, I have done what I felt like doing.

Prospering just doesn’t have to do with money.

Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish. Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

Positional leaders ignore the fact that every person has hopes, dreams, desires, and goals of his own. And leaders must bring their vision and the aspirations of the people they lead together in a way that benefits everyone.

I got teased my entire school life. What they were picking on I don’t even understand.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

I think, for years, people have been pushed down by religion, and I don’t say that disrespectfully, but they’ve been shown a God that you can’t measure up to.

It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

A lot of dreams can turn to nightmares… if you don’t really work them.

Human beings must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

I think that’s the single best piece of advice: constantly think about how you could be doing things better and questioning yourself.

I defy gravity.

It’s like a jar of salad dressing sitting on a shelf… most of the seasoning settles to the bottom of the bottle. But when you shake that bottle up, all the ingredients mix together and then the dressing can add flavor to a salad. In the same way, we can stir ourselves up and regain the reverence, respect and awe we once had for the Lord.

I didn’t consider myself a fashion designer at all at the time of punk. I was just using fashion as a way to express my resistance and to be rebellious. I came from the country, and by the time I got to London, I considered myself to be very stupid. It was my ambition to understand the world I live in.

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

I want to be just a pure spiritual leader.

You’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

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.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

I’m not critic-proof, and I still take it personally, but I take it less personally now.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Don’t let the incidents which take place in life bring you low. And certainly don’t whine. You can be brought low, that’s OK, but don’t be reduced by them. Just say, ‚That’s life.‘

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn’t have put the desire in me.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

See, winners embrace hard work.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

Fortune befriends the bold.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

Fear is exciting for me.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.

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.