Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

Humor has bailed me out of more tight situations than I can think of. If you go with your instincts and keep your humor, creativity follows. With luck, success comes, too.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you’ve got to let it grow.

I’m about being the best.

A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.

The battle is all over except the ‚shouting‘ when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Applause waits on success.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

There’s a lack of people in power that are motivated by the idea of helping people.

Of course awards matter.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

This ain’t fun. But you watch me, I’ll get it done.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks; everyone else looks for work.

We’re going to have to work. We’re going to have to play well. Nothing will be given to us.

Small aim is a crime.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

I was 18 years old, and it was a dream come true for me to work out and eat great food for free. What else do you want in life? People think that is what it is like to be in a SEAL team, but it is less than a fraction of your career as a real SEAL.

Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally. So I get up early in the morning, 4 o’clock, and I sit at my desk and what I do is just dream. After three or four hours, that’s enough. In the afternoon, I run. The next day, the dream will continue.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

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.

The closest I ever came to getting married was just before I started singing. In fact, my first record saved my neck.

If you get something right, you really feel it, right in your chest, on stage. I think it’s an incomparable experience.

Quitting doesn’t enter my mind.

I feel that I’ve done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.

I’m never gonna step away from stand-up. I can’t. That’s what got me where I am, and that’s also my muse. That’s how I stay level-headed. That’s what keeps me going.

The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.

I didn’t have nothin‘ going for me… school, home… until I found something I loved, which was music, and that changed everything.

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

I still have my first paycheck. It was just, I think, a dollar or two that I got when I started as a songwriter with BMI, and I had some songs there that I had through the company, and in the mail I got this big old check for, like, a dollar and a half or something. Somebody had recorded one of my songs.

Once I’ve decided to do something, I do usually try to carry it through to fruition.

Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.

Music comes to me more readily than words.

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.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful, that’s what matters to me.

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

If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it’s cool that happens.

Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known.

There’s no real excuse for being successful enough as an actor to do what you want and then selling out. You do it pure. You don’t try to adapt it, make it commercial.

A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing.

When Henry Ford made cheap, reliable cars people said, ‚Nah, what’s wrong with a horse?‘ That was a huge bet he made, and it worked.

The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.

Only those who want everything done for them are bored.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

I came, I saw, I conquered.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.