I never worry about action, but only inaction.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

If I can be a leader, I will.

It is no use saying, ‚We are doing our best.‘ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

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

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Americans never quit.

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!

If you don’t set the tone for the day, the devil will set it for you.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I don’t think I would run for president.

Of course, I do everything for money.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

You must take the compromise to win, or else nothing. That means: you race or you do not.

It generally happens that assurance keeps an even pace with ability.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Anything important is never left to the vote of the people. We only get to vote on some man; we never get to vote on what he is to do.

Men’s actions are too strong for them. Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

I realize I don’t do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

Nothing is stopping me from doing what I love to do.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

It has not yet become obvious to me that there’s no real problem. I cannot define the real problem; therefore, I suspect there’s no real problem, but I’m not sure there’s no real problem.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

Emotion creates reality, reality demands action.

I know Elon, we’re very like minded in many ways. We’re not conceptual twins. One thing I want us to do is go to Mars, but for me it’s one thing. He’s singularly focused on that. I think motivation wise, for me I don’t find that Plan B idea motivating. I don’t want a plan B for Earth, I want Plan B to make sure Plan A works.

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.

You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor.

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

I tried acting, liked it, and stuck with it. I saw it as the way I would keep that promise to myself of getting back at those who had made my school life a misery.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.

I don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment… If it doesn’t turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Necessity never made a good bargain.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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.

You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I don’t know what drives me to succeed.

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‚If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?‘ And whenever the answer has been ‚No‘ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

I’m inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Get busy living, or get busy dying.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs.

I attribute my success to this – I never gave or took any excuse.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

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

As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not being idle, then you’re doing good in my book.

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.