I feel like this: Whatever is in your path and in your heart, you need to do.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.

When the negative thoughts come – and they will; they come to all of us – it’s not enough to just not dwell on it… You’ve got to replace it with a positive thought.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.

You gotta water your plants. Nobody can water them for you.

Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

What’s wrong with being a boring kind of guy?

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Never mistake motion for action.

I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it’d take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn’t want to retreat.

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number of his defects and qualities, know how far he can go, foretell his failures – be what he is. And, above all, accept these things.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

If your treat an individual… as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success.

When there’s so much left to do, why spend your time focusing on things you’ve already done, counting trophies or telling stories about the good old days?

If I see something sagging, bagging or dragging I’ll get it nipped, tucked or sucked.

A man of courage is also full of faith.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

History will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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.

Bad men are full of repentance.

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

I’d have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

The truth is, anyone can start projects. The world is full of just-started projects that looked great at the time but were never completed.

God created man, but I could do better.

The true artist is not proud: he unfortunately sees that art has no limits; he feels darkly how far he is from the goal, and though he may be admired by others, he is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.

Our Creator expects His children everywhere to educate themselves.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no one can take it from him.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Love. Fall in love and stay in love. Write only what you love, and love what you write. The key word is love. You have to get up in the morning and write something you love, something to live for.

Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

Whenever I’m around some who is modest, I think, ‚Run like hell and all of fire.‘ You don’t want modesty, you want humility.

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.

As soon as I accomplish one goal, I replace it with another one. I try not to get too far ahead of myself. I just say to myself, ‚All right, well, I’d like to headline a tour,‘ and then when I get there, we’ll see what my next goal is.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Confidence comes from discipline and training.

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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

Dave Mackay is my definition of a superstar. The man broke his leg three times, but wouldn’t be carried off. He walked off.

Check your ego at the door. The ego can be the great success inhibitor. It can kill opportunities, and it can kill success.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.

I’m sure a lot of people out there make mistakes.

Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.

The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.

I think it’s my responsibility, as a person of influence… to sometimes try to do what I can.

The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.