Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

A hundred struggle and drown in the breakers. One discovers the new world. But rather, ten times rather, die in the surf, heralding the way to that new world, than stand idly on the shore.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Even after a bad harvest there must be sowing.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

I don’t focus on the critics. Everyone who is making any difference in any field has critics. As long as I feel like I’m doing what I’m supposed to be doing, then I don’t worry about it.

The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.

I remember they used to tell me, they said, ‚Khaled, you can’t get a Rolls-Royce; you need to get one of them small ones.‘ So I went and bought a Phantom.

Love to everybody who is out there progressing and taking things to the next level.

You get one life. I’m going to embrace mine.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I have to keep improving myself and challenging myself.

I won’t accept anything less than the best a player’s capable of doing… and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

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.

What one has, one ought to use: and whatever he does he should do with all his might.

The idea that to make a man work you’ve got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We’ve done that for so long that we’ve forgotten there’s any other way.

Power is the measure of the degree of control you have over circumstances in your life and the actions of the people around you. It is a skill that is developed by a deep understanding of human nature, of what truly motivates people, and of the manipulations necessary for advancement and protection.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

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

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.

If you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go.

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

I do not like the man who squanders life for fame; give me the man who living makes a name.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

If a man can… make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The valiant never taste of death but once.

There is no man living that can not do more than he thinks he can.

Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery’s shadow or reflection: the fact that you don’t merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.

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

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Giving up cannot be an option.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

I am sure as everyone knows that I am not the happiest if I don’t do a good job in qualifying or the race.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I know so many people who feel hopeless, and they ask me, ‚What should I do?‘ And I say: ‚Act. Do something.‘ Because that is the best medicine against sadness and depression.

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

I need music. It’s like my heartbeat, so to speak. It keeps me going no matter what’s going on – bad games, press, whatever!

Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.

Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?

Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

I am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.

If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

The best way out is always through.

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