If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

If you would be loved, love, and be loveable.

Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

It’s presumptuous to say you know how somebody feels.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Good planning is important. I’ve also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you’re in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you’re depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

It’s a piece of cake until you get to the top. You find you can’t stop playing the game the way you’ve always played it.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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.

Even as you make progress, you need the discipline to keep from backtracking and sabotaging the success as it’s happening.

The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all those things. And then we shall be very cautious.

My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

Obedience brings success; exact obedience brings miracles.

Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.

I have only one understanding of development and of making success, and that’s by going step by step.

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved.

It’s that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so ‚don’t fuss, dear; get on with it.‘

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

You have to understand that people that are hurting are going to criticize.

Those who say it can’t be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

What keeps me going is goals.

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

But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water’s edge.

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

Achievement brings its own anticlimax.

It’s not about changing people; it’s sometimes about changing a situation. How can we build an even better situation for them?

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.

Children need to get a high-quality education, avoid violence and the criminal-justice system, and gain jobs. But they deserve more. We want them to learn not only reading and math but fairness, caring, self-respect, family commitment, and civic duty.

I’ve noticed that when I am selling a lot of records, certain things become easier. I’m not talking about getting a table in a restaurant.

We will never have true civilization until we have learned to recognize the rights of others.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.

People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

As long as somebody finances you, can make a film and get it seen any place and in any language; then, hopefully, it’s a success.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

In any court-like environment of power, you will inevitably find people who are drawn to those who are successful or powerful, not out of admiration, but out of secret envy.

I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

I believe God, Jesus, died that we not just go to Heaven but that we excel in this life. I never think you make money your goal… God wants you to excel. Just keep Him in first place, and God will open up doors you never dreamed of.

I bought a company in the mid-’90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I’ve made lots of dumb decisions. That’s part of the game.

If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What’s the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.