People who pity themselves think, ‚Why would I try to do anything? I’ll just fail.‘

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance – the idea that anything is possible.

This is Sunday, and the question arises, what’ll I start tomorrow?

If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder.

Everybody asks if putting is like shooting free throws. It has a very similar kind of mindset. And it’s just you, the ball, and the target.

There are very few people who are going to look into the mirror and say, ‚That person I see is a savage monster;‘ instead, they make up some construction that justifies what they do.

Without football, my life is worth nothing.

The first lesson a revolutionary must learn is that he is a doomed man.

Everyone has the potential to become an encourager. You don’t have to be rich. You don’t have to be a genius. You don’t have to have it all together. All you have to do is care about people and initiate.

When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

I only want my work to make people happy.

I never think of myself as an icon. What is in other people’s minds is not in my mind. I just do my thing.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man’s life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.

Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

I’ve got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.

If you get knocked down – setbacks in life, like applying for a job if they don’t hire you – keep trying, keep getting up, keep doing it.

It is always your next move.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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

Small aim is a crime; have great aim.

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

If a man has not discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.

Why don’t you start believing that no matter what you have or haven’t done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

I can’t believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

There is no room for military people, including our veterans, to see themselves as victims, even if so many of our countrymen are prone to relish that role.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It’s the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

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.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know. There’s no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.

Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

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.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Quitting is the easiest thing to do.

Whatever I engage in, I must push inordinately.

The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.

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

My father was a negative person. He actually taught me to be negative, if that makes any sense. I remember him saying: ‚You know there’s no point in expecting anything good to happen because it won’t.‘ I grew up in such a negative atmosphere.

I have wasted my hours.

My success isn’t a result of arrogance – it’s a result of belief.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I can’t tell you how frustrating it was that they didn’t get that. No joke – I’d leave meetings crying all the time.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Free people, remember this maxim: we may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

I’m just an individual who doesn’t feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I’m working for me.

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.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.