When times are bad is when the real entrepreneurs emerge.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

It take many a year, mon, and maybe some bloodshed must be, but righteousness someday prevail.

While they were saying among themselves it cannot be done, it was done.

Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

Kitchens are hard environments and they form incredibly strong characters.

The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

I’m committed to the fight game.

My message to all the activists is to just keep going, and I know it really may seem impossible and hopeless sometimes – it always does – so you just have to keep going because if you try hard enough and long enough you will make a difference.

We are never defeated unless we give up on God.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope.

I’m not a good storm-outer… because I forget stuff.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

At Virgin, we have always backed the power of the entrepreneur and inventor to find solutions to tricky problems. Why should climate change and the battle against carbon be any different?

We get paid for bringing value to the market place.

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 love the natural world – it comes from my culture, which grew out of a people enslaved.

It’s the job that’s never started as takes longest to finish.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.

Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time; he is not two men, but one, and he has saved not only his soul but his life.

What is once well done is done forever.

I’m not the sort to back away from a fight. I don’t believe in shrinking from anything. It’s not my speed; I’m a guy who meets adversities head on.

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

Real firmness is good for anything; strut is good for nothing.

Didn’t get promoted? Good. More time to get better.

About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

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.

People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.

The resolve of our great nation is being tested. But make no mistake, we will show the world that we will pass the test.

What keeps me going is goals.

When it all got taken away, I was becoming a young man. So I had to sacrifice to leave my family… Sleeping in my car, getting an apartment for a month and getting evicted the next month. Staying in the $25, $50 hotels.

The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it.

If you keep on writing for three years, every day, you should be strong. Of course, you have to be strong mentally, also. But in the first place, you have to be strong physically. That is a very important thing. Physically and mentally you have to be strong.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

It’s a frustrating game because the situations so drastically change at different times over the course of the week, the game, the season. It feels like brain surgery at times.

I wonder how many times people give up just before a breakthrough – when they are on the very brink of success.

We will all fail in life, but nobody has to be a failure. Failing at a thing doesn’t make you a failure. You are only a failure when you quit trying.

It is true that we are weak and sick and ugly and quarrelsome but if that is all we ever were, we would millenniums ago have disappeared from the face of the earth.

I don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.

I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.

I’m in this business to be creative – I’ll even diminish it and say to be a content provider.

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.

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

It was a personal decision for me to stand and say that cricket is all I have in life, there’s nothing I need to do other than cricket. If I want to achieve whatever I thought as a kid, I need to work hard and not let it go to waste.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer to your goal.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

With drive and a bit of talent, you can move mountains. I know. I’ve done it.

I always was that person who was hard on myself and challenged myself no matter what I was doing, whether it was passing third grade or playing basketball.

Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.