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

Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country.

I don’t run restaurants that are out of control. We are about establishing phenomenal footholdings with talent.

If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.

If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

Believe me, I’m much easier to be around when we win than when we lose.

Better the rudest work that tells a story or records a fact, than the richest without meaning.

It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

Control is the source of strategic power.

Chavez, who came out of the ranks of the Venezuelan Army, is methodical and tireless. I have observed him over the course of 17 years, since his first visit to Cuba. He is an extremely humanitarian and law-abiding person; he has never taken revenge on anybody.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

All I ever wanted to do with my life was own a little house. I did that way back with ‚Rocky,‘ so now everything I do is just icing on the cake.

I don’t think I would run for president.

The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

My rule is to break one sweat a day.

Yeah, I wasn’t chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn’t planned by anyone.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

I’m trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He’s for them and has a purpose.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

I was impressed with what someone like Karl Lagerfeld built and did and the house that he made, but there was never really a female figure I wanted to emulate.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions not wholly unworthy of its Almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly and lone and hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

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.

Good executives never put off until tomorrow what they can get someone else to do today.

Hallow the body as a temple to comeliness and sanctify the heart as a sacrifice to love; love recompenses the adorers.

I don’t control my writing – it controls me.

You’ve really got to start hitting the books because it’s no joke out here.

Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage.

A home without books is a body without soul.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

You know, when I have a bad game, it continues to humble me and know that, you know, you still have work to do and you still have a lot of people to impress.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Before finding music, I didn’t have too many aspirations. I wanted to hang out, make a little money from whatever I had to do.

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.

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

It’s not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Yesterday is but today’s memory, and tomorrow is today’s dream.

Personally, I think the best motto for an educational establishment is: ‚Or Would You Rather Be a Mule?‘

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.

Strong emotions such as passion and bliss are indications that you’re connected to Spirit, or ‚inspired,‘ if you will. When you’re inspired, you activate dormant forces, and the abundance you seek in any form comes streaming into your life.

As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

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

There’s no political point worth my son’s life.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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

I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people – one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion’s den. You can’t just play around with all those big cats – you’ve got to take somebody on.

If you deserve it, go get it.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.