I know I want to always do the best I can.

I never say I am a guru.

Create a ladder of values and priorities in your life, reminding yourself of what really matters to you.

I go to cancer wards, and I tell them guys, ‚I’ve beaten it. You can, too.‘

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm… in the real world all rests on perseverance.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.

If I’d had good discipline, I might have gone into music.

I know that I came into the world with what I call ‚big dharma‘ – with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Infinite striving to be the best is man’s duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God’s hands.

Invest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.

We all have a tendency to avoid our weaknesses. When we do that, we never progress or get any better.

If you’re not going to be rewarded for your virtues, and instead you’re going to be punished for them, then what’s your motivation to continue?

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I have made the mistaken assumption – and I will attempt to be better at this – of thinking that because somebody is on Twitter and is attacking me that it is open season. And that is my mistake.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.

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

Opportunity makes a thief.

And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.

When you can’t make them see the light, make them feel the heat.

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

I am an over-achiever, and I want to be known for the good things in my life.

You make yourself broad. You make yourself appealing. ‚Hey, y’all, I’m cool with everybody.‘ That’s my message.

Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

Big results require big ambitions.

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in.

How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be?

If you don’t drive your business, you will be driven out of business.

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

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A person places themselves on a level with the ones they praise.

I’m not the same man I used to be, I’m not out hell-raising, stuff like that. I am a changed man.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

At the end of the day, I understand that life has road blocks, and life is like school – you’ll be tested; we gotta pass it.

Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

A great man is always willing to be little.

I’m not the most patient of people.

I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.

If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

Women, like men, should try to do the impossible. And when they fail, their failure should be a challenge to others.

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

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

As unique as we all are, an awful lot of us want the same things. We want to shake up our current less-than-fulfilling lives. We want to be happier, more loving, forgiving and connected with the people around us.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

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.

My powers are ordinary. Only my application brings me success.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.