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.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

One cannot become a saint when one works sixteen hours a day.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

Learn to say ‚no‘ to the good so you can say ‚yes‘ to the best.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.

The challenge is to stay cool enough to handle the pressure in the moment so that you can succeed in the future.

If you think you can do a thing or think you can’t do a thing, you’re right.

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

People who use time wisely spend it on activities that advance their overall purpose in life.

We don’t want to wait on someone to hire us and give us a check. We want to create our own opportunities.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on the road, long before I dance under those lights.

I feel real good because it’s about representing the young world and how to uplift each other and how to push us to be greater and make sure we don’t fall or get trapped or get in trouble, you know what I mean. Stay focused, you know what I mean.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Better to fight for something than live for nothing.

Fight with a happy heart.

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.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

Over the years I’ve learned how to lock myself up in a prison of hope, knowing that God has nothing but His best planned for me. He promised me things concerning my ministry and my life.

Nearly all the things I do that are of any merit at all start off just being good fun, and I think I’m sort of building up to doing something else quite soon.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. 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 learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it.

One of the wonderful things about Oprah: She teaches you to keep on stepping.

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

I didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.

There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.

We should not teach children the sciences; but give them a taste for them.

Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.

Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don’t know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

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

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Desire is the essence of a man.

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.

I just figured out that if I gave my all into this game – if I put everything into the fight business – then I would eventually run the fight business.

I only want my work to make people happy.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

I’m a very strong believer in listening and learning from others.

‚Worry‘ is a word that I don’t allow myself to use.

As far as I’m concerned, I’m a writer who’s writing books, and therefore, I don’t want to die. You’d miss the end of the book wouldn’t you? You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

People buy into the leader before they buy into the vision.

The thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.

Keep your nose out the sky, keep your heart to god, and keep your face to the raising sun.

Failed plans should not be interpreted as a failed vision. Visions don’t change, they are only refined. Plans rarely stay the same, and are scrapped or adjusted as needed. Be stubborn about the vision, but flexible with your plan.