Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.

Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.

The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.

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.

From caring comes courage.

Once you start a working on something, don’t be afraid of failure and don’t abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

My philosophy of life is that if we make up our mind what we are going to make of our lives, then work hard toward that goal, we never lose – somehow we win out.

Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war.

Genius is patience.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

There is no innovation and creativity without failure. Period.

The price of greatness is responsibility.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Opportunity makes a thief.

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.

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.

If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.

Nothing is so fatiguing as the eternal hanging on of an uncompleted task.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

My unpredictability is what separates me. If you move in so many ways, your opponent is not focused on what he’s doing. He’s focusing in on what you’re doing, and it freezes him. When they freeze and you hit, they shatter like glass.

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

If it doesn’t work out there will never be any doubt that the pleasure was worth all the pain.

I don’t see how people are comfortable with seeing other people be great. You can be happy for anybody, but what is your excuse to not want to be great? These people are great because they just say, ‚I’ma do that,‘ and they do it. That’s it. There’s no scientifical process.

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

You simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.

I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.

You must reward the kind of behavior that you want.

Of course awards matter.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

The most talented do not always end up as celebrities, and those with less talent often do. Upsets are written into our history and occur around us every day.

I should be a postage stamp, because that’s the only way I’ll ever get licked. I’m beautiful. I’m fast. I’m so mean I make medicine sick. I can’t possibly be beat.

Man’s only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Getting rich is about fun. It’s a game, and you have to treat it that way.

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

I get so excited when a song I wrote that’s very personal to me goes No. 1 and I look down and see people singing the words back to me.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Magic has five championships. I have five championships. I’m pretty sure we both know what we’re doing.

When I started my last business, I didn’t receive a paycheck for 13 months. The average person can’t handle that pressure.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

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.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there’s only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

Life begins on the other side of despair.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.