No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

You know, watching Dan Marino and Steve Young get nominated to the Hall of Fame… those guys are unbelievable and they did it for so long. I’d love to play like those guys, but there’s still a long way to go and a lot of growing.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The future doesn’t belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave.

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

It is natural to want to have a future.

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.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I do the very best I know how – the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

I want people to draw strength from me.

I want the troops from Great Britain and the U.S. to be successful, but by the same token, Afghanistan has always been a screw-up.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

I think the message has already been sent to Hollywood, which is that this kid’s a hard worker, he’s talented, and people are coming out to see him. And when you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up.

I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.

When I used to play sports, I’d be the one cheering the team on, ‚Come on, we can beat these guys!‘ That’s just in me.

And winning is a huge thing for me.

It isn’t sufficient just to want – you’ve got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want.

Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

I’ve been lucky. Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path.

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

Every day is a gift from God. There’s no guarantee of tomorrow, so that tells me to see the good in this day to make the most of it.

It’s the philosophies of being an athlete that carry me today.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The incomparable greatness of the religions of the East lies in their having been second to none in vibrating with the passion for unity. This note, which is essential to every form of mysticism, has even penetrated them so deeply that we find ourselves falling under a spell simply by uttering the names of their Gods.

We are all of us stars, and we deserve to twinkle.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

I’d sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Nothing can come of nothing.

While we may lose heart, we never have to lose hope.

My success comes in making fun of whatever you’re doing. That’s my way.

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Never let yesterday use up too much of today.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

I want to go and go, and then drop dead in the middle of something I’m loving to do. And if that doesn’t happen, if I wind up sitting in a wheelchair, at least I’ll have my high heels on.

The great question of our time is, ‚Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?‘

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.

Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I’m fully behind.

Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure love for Christ, your soul’s husband. Make Him the source, the center, and the circumference of all your soul’s range of delight.

I always thought that if I made it big or got successful at what I had started out to do, that I wanted to come back to my part of the country and do something great, something that would bring a lot of jobs into this area.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

The reward of a thing well done is having done it.