Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree.

I am not designed to come second or third. I am designed to win.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

As a shame researcher, I know that the very best thing to do in the midst of a shame attack is totally counterintuitive: Practice courage and reach out!

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

I always feel like it’s two key ingredients when it comes to following your dreams, making something happen that the average person deems difficult. If you truly believe it, that’s step one. Step two, is, you know, the hard work that goes along with it.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.

What happened in the missile crisis in October 1962 has been prettified to make it look as if acts of courage and thoughtfulness abounded. The truth is that the whole episode was almost insane.

Daring to set boundaries is about having the courage to love ourselves, even when we risk disappointing others.

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.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.

You have enough people against you… be for yourself.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

We all sort of do want incentives for creative people to still exist at a certain level. You know, maybe rock stars shouldn’t make as much; who knows? But you want as much creativity to take place in the future as took place in the past.

If it wasn’t for the fun and money, I really don’t know why I’d bother.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

Losing is tough.

If you want to shine like a sun, first burn like a sun.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

Never complain. Never explain.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

If four things are followed – having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance – then anything can be achieved.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

I don’t tell people, ‚You’re okay the way that you are.‘ That’s not the right story. The right story is, ‚You’re way less than you could be.‘

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‚I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.‘

If a small-town boy like me who bagged groceries was able to make his dreams come true, you can too.

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.

Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

I take inspiration from everyone and everything. I’m inspired by current champions, former champions, true competitors, people dedicated to their dream, hard workers, dreamers, believers, achievers.

I’m gonna go hard no matter what because I gotta feed my family, and I gotta feed myself.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

You sort of start thinking anything’s possible if you’ve got enough nerve.

I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

Most people want to avoid pain, and discipline is usually painful.

Idleness is the beginning of all vice, the crown of all virtues.

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets.

Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

Listen; there’s a hell of a good universe next door: let’s go.

To do your best is no longer good enough. We now have to do the seemingly impossible.

Off with you! You’re a happy fellow, for you’ll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

A passionate belief in your business and personal objectives can make all the difference between success and failure. If you aren’t proud of what you’re doing, why should anybody else be?