The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried.

Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

Let not your mind run on what you lack as much as on what you have already.

There are going to be things I’m not going to be great at, times when I make mistakes, 100%.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

One word from the Lord is like a piece of gold to a believer, who is like a jeweler, shaping and hammering out the promise for a number of weeks.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

I feel like I have a job to do, like I constantly have to reinvent myself. The more I up the ante for myself, the better it is in the long run. I try to interact with my fans as much as possible. It’s good that the person I’m being onstage isn’t really an act. It’s really me.

Civil disobedience’s main goal typically is to try to arouse and inspire others to join and do something. Well, sometimes that is a good tactic, sometimes not.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.

You know, as a writer, I’m more of a listener than a writer, cuz if I hear something I will write it down.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

You may think it was a very little thing, and in these days it seems to me like a trifle, but it was a most important incident in my life. I could scarcely credit that I, the poor boy, had earned a dollar in less than a day; that by honest work, I had earned a dollar. I was a more hopeful and thoughtful boy from that time.

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life.

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

I went through every emotion with tryna pursue what I’m doing, you know what I mean? And I think what’s gon‘ separate whoever’s gon go for something, that you ain’t gon‘ quit.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

I don’t want to hear the word ‚can’t.‘

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

You may make some mistakes – but that doesn’t make you a sinner. You’ve got the very nature of God on the inside of you.

Be smarter than other people, just don’t tell them so.

Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.

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

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

I love playing under pressure. In fact, if there’s no pressure, then I’m not in the perfect zone.

The relationship to one’s fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is from prayer that one draws the strength for one’s striving.

Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.

The ancestor of every action is a thought.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time! I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it’s unbelievable!

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

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.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Religion is essentially the art and the theory of the remaking of man. Man is not a finished creation.

When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

People want to feel hopeful.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

The self is hateful.

The big message of gospel is that you don’t have to keep fighting the universe; you can stop, and the universe is quite good to you. There is a loss of ego.

People don’t usually compliment your character.

I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

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

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.