Think of yourself as on the threshold of unparalleled success. A whole, clear, glorious life lies before you. Achieve! Achieve!

I’d rather be a victor than a victim.

I’ve never gone into business to make money. Every Virgin product and service has been made into a reality to make a positive difference in people’s lives. And by focusing on the happiness of our customers, we have been able to build a successful group of companies.

And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren’t any other people living in the world.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

To win is always good for the feeling of the whole team.

Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can’t move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that.

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

When I was married, I definitely went through a lying period.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

What I can say is that all my characters are searching for their souls, because they are my mirrors. I’m someone who is constantly trying to understand my place in the world, and literature is the best way that I found in order to see myself.

Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I’m pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people’s bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.

Egos are never nice. I have been a victim of it a lot of times in my career. Whenever I have used it, I have failed.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago, men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them.

Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience.

When I’m in the studio, I’m looking for creativity I haven’t matched yet, a feeling I haven’t felt. It’s a high.

We herd sheep, we drive cattle, we lead people. Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.

If two smart, intelligent, clever guys sit together on a table, and you both want the same, where can be the problem? We all want to be successful.

The art of being a slave is to rule one’s master.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

When granted many years of life, growing old in age is natural, but growing old with grace is a choice. Growing older with grace is possible for all who will set their hearts and minds on the Giver of grace, the Lord Jesus Christ.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I don’t have many sad days.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

Football is a team game and none can survive or excel without the help of the other.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S.A. won the medal of gold. The Greeks said, ‚You’re better than the Cassius of old.‘

I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

You don’t write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.

Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose.

A gypsy told me I was going to do great things. I was going to make all kinds of money.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

The spirit becomes free only when it ceases to be a support.

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

You can either be a host to God, or a hostage to your ego. It’s your call.

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

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building stuff that they’re proud of.

There is one thing that gets you out of bed in the morning, and that is discipline. Because your dreams and your goals are not there waking up for you in the morning.

He ate and drank the precious Words, his Spirit grew robust; He knew no more that he was poor, nor that his frame was Dust.

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.

The love of heaven makes one heavenly.

I see fighters make funny videos about me and stick them on Facebook and get 20 likes. When I make a video, I sell it to Fox and make seven figures. That’s the difference.

I’m not really book-smart.