Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.

A hustler has to deal with danger and risk. It’s part of the game. You cannot control it all, nor would you want to. Chaos, unknown factors are not something to be anxious about.

Fortune befriends the bold.

You can never really live anyone else’s life, not even your child’s. The influence you exert is through your own life, and what you’ve become yourself.

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.

Water is life, and clean water means health.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

To be successful, a woman has to be much better at her job than a man.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life – in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster’s own personal example.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering – an image of death.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution – this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Don’t confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

You’ve got to go out on a limb sometimes because that’s where the fruit is.

At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.

If my businesses or my investments are not profitable, then I don’t eat. And I like to eat.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

If you are first you are first. If you are second you are nothing.

If you sit there and have that mentality of ‚triple down on what you’re good at,‘ you’re never going to grow. You’re always going to stay the same.

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.

If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

No sooner said than done – so acts your man of worth.

Our words will either bring life and victory or death and destruction. If we want to be happy, we have to be serious about speaking words of life that line up with God’s Word.

This has always been my life and no one else’s, and that’s how it’s always been since the day I came in it.

I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it’s just such a dramatic success.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

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

To a man of pleasure every moment appears to be lost, which partakes not of the vivacity of amusement.

I explain the law of compensation like this: ‚Returns are minimal in spite of massive effort at the start, yet returns can be massive with minimal effort over time.

I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.

I love Notting Hill and Westbourne Grove – there is so much life and vitality around Portobello and Ladbroke Grove. It has come up a lot since I started Virgin more than 40 years ago, but there is so much character.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

I didn’t know how to deal with success. If there was a Rock Star 101, I would have liked to take it. It might have helped me.

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives.

Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.

If you like it you should enjoy it! Moderation in everything. If there’s things you really love, you should enjoy. You get one life, so you should enjoy it.

Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one’s life.

I’ve always strived to be successful, not famous.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

My measure of success is whether I’m fulfilling my mission.

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Read no history: nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.

In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn’t been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A’s without taking a book home. I didn’t go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them.

There are people out there who hate me and who say I’m arrogant, vain, and whatever. That’s all part of my success. I am made to be the best.

We’ve always had a pretty competitive and pretty ferocious battle with British Airways… It’s lasted now about 14 years, and we’re very pleased to have survived it.

We have the duty to protect the life of an unborn child.