I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

I think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life.

I am simply trying to struggle through life; trying to do God’s bidding.

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.

Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

Time and the hour run through the roughest day.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

If I waited for perfection… I would never write a word.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one’s thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

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.

I’m not going to get somewhere and say, ‚OK, I’m done.‘ Success is never final; I’ll just keep on going. The same way as failure never being fatal. Just keep going. I’m going to the stars and then past them.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Why did I become Jackie Chan? Mostly because I work very hard. When people were sleeping, I was still training.

If your inner life is not producing what you would like on the outside, don’t be discouraged… just be willing to change.

What I admire most about Hillary is that she never buckles under pressure. She never takes the easy way out. And Hillary Clinton has never quit on anything in her life. And when I think about the kind of president that I want for my girls and all our children, that’s what I want.

I shook up the world, I shook up the world.

What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.

In our obscurity – in all this vastness – there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us.

How you respond to the challenge in the second half will determine what you become after the game, whether you are a winner or a loser.

A day without laughter is a day wasted.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Your decision to be, have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.

I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

The only way round is through.

The colonel replied that he didn’t care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.

Not one person can make or break what I’m doing, except me or God.

Desire is the essence of a man.

I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

‚Victory Lap,‘ even the title. It’s the accumulation of trial and error; that’s what I represent; trial and error.

Someone told me something that stuck with me: ‚You have to envision your life, and then go backwards.‘ I’ve been living by that motto for a while, so I see where I need to be. Now I’m just backtracking and trying to get back up there.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others‘ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That’s one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still.

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.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

I worked out early on to give up things I couldn’t do well at all.