Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.

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!

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

Success isn’t supposed to happen, no matter how hard you work. There’s no guarantee you’re going to succeed. There’s nothing set in stone.

My mother was a very wonderful woman. When she and my dad divorced, she moved to California and worked two jobs in the cannery at night and as a waitress during the day. But she saved enough money to establish a restaurant.

Sometimes, getting up in the morning and brushing your teeth is the hardest part of the day – it all just hurts.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.

I defy gravity.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

The ideas gained by men before they are twenty-five are practically the only ideas they shall have in their lives.

My goal was never to be the loudest or the craziest. It was to be the most entertaining.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?

That is my wish, hope, instruction for all of you: Take your education seriously, okay? Always do that. Because I wouldn’t be here today if it weren’t for my education.

From caring comes courage.

A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with – a man is what he makes of himself.

My dad always said, ‚Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.‘

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

All my life, I’ve been trying to make a hole-in-one. The closest I’ve come is a bogey.

The beginning is the most important part of the work.

You want me to own a team and deal with these rich, spoiled stubborn athletes, and try to get them to perform? No thank you.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

I believe that one person can make a difference.

What? You seek something? You wish to multiply yourself tenfold, a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeros!

I wanted to get a job being creative, and I did.

The most important thing is to try and inspire people so that they can be great in whatever they want to do.

When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

I don’t really focus on these things – on what tags are given to me or what people think of me off the field – stuff like that. My main focus is always to do well on the field for the Indian cricket team. When people say good things about me off the field, I am more than happy to accept them.

We are what we believe we are.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I think the Iranians are clearly determined to have a nuclear program. And we have to assume that with a nuclear program they have the capability and the will to create a nuclear weapon.

Needing to have things perfect is the surest way to immobilize yourself with frustration.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don’t want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.

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.

Writing is challenging work because it’s so easy to get consumed with how it’s going, what’s going to happen to it, who’s going to like or not like it. You want to get all of that stuff out of your head and just let the work flow.

Whatever you believe with feeling becomes your reality.

Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had.

As for me, prizes are nothing. My prize is my work.

You can’t hire someone to practice for you.

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The answers that I would invariably get are: ‚Oh, that’s just the way things are done around here.‘ Nobody knows why they do what they do. Nobody thinks very deeply about things in business.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

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

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

We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line. Don’t forget it.

The more a person seeks security, the more that person gives up control over their life.