It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

I want to be part of that long list who have achieved great things with McLaren, won races and championships.

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.

You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

If you choose to do something, attack it. You can hate me, but there’s one thing you can’t say about me – that I didn’t attack it.

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

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

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

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Even though you are on the right track – you will get run over if you just sit there.

Our work is never over.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Refuse to be a lazy Christian, and resist a passive, apathetic attitude.

Education comes from within; you get it by struggle and effort and thought.

Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‚Don’t try.‘ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.

‚Victory‘ is like, you won, so the question is, what? What did you win? I think that the songs go into that. It’s just about reaching a place in myself.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.

It is better to do one’s own duty, however defective it may be, than to follow the duty of another, however well one may perform it. He who does his duty as his own nature reveals it, never sins.

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we’ve got a system that allows them to do it.

Try and leave this world a little better than you found it, and when your turn comes to die, you can die happy in feeling that at any rate, you have not wasted your time but have done your best.

I stayed true to my dreams and, eventually, they came true.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope. Causing people to have better relationships. I’m not leading them to some false God or something like that.

I didn’t want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that’s a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I’m proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it.

Let the path be open to talent.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

When you are organizing a group of people, the first thing that we do is we talk about the history of what other people have been able to accomplish – people that look like them, workers like them, ordinary people, working people – and we give them the list: these are people like yourself; this is what they were able to do in their community.

Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.

My favorite affirmation when I feel stuck or out of sorts is: Whatever I need is already here, and it is all for my highest good. Jot this down and post it conspicuously throughout your home, on the dashboard of your car, at your office, on your microwave oven, and even in front of your toilets!

I was always told as a child by my mother that you always have to be impeccable, even when you go to bed.

Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

It doesn’t matter where you are coming from. All that matters is where you are going.

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.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

Fight with a happy heart.

Success and failure are equally disastrous.

I already am a product.

If we’re really honest with ourselves, most of us will admit that we want to impress people, and this is what’s causing us to do what we do.

Back in the day, what motivated me was overcoming myself. Now I believe in being a leader. I’ve done it all – I’m good. Now, it’s about setting an example for others to follow. I can’t just talk it – I have to live it.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

Vanity is great motivation, to be fair.

Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

What this power is I cannot say; all I know is that it exists and it becomes available only when a man is in that state of mind in which he knows exactly what he wants and is fully determined not to quit until he finds it.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

What is a fear of living? It’s being preeminently afraid of dying. It is not doing what you came here to do, out of timidity and spinelessness. The antidote is to take full responsibility for yourself – for the time you take up and the space you occupy. If you don’t know what you’re here to do, then just do some good.