Without discipline, there’s no life at all.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Some habits of ineffectiveness are rooted in our social conditioning toward quick-fix, short-term thinking.

There’s different kinds of laughs. It’s like a baseball lineup: this guy’s your power hitter, this guy gets on base, this guy works out walks. If everybody does their job, we’re gonna win.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

There’s no point in starting a business unless you’re going to make a dramatic difference to other people’s lives. So if you’ve got an idea that’s gonna make a big difference to other people’s lives, then just get on and do it.

I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.

In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‚we have a problem, let’s go and get it‘.

I’m not a bad person.

Each player must accept the cards life deals him or her: but once they are in hand, he or she alone must decide how to play the cards in order to win the game.

When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.

What a man can be, he must be. This need we call self-actualization.

Genius is patience.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That’s what I’ve done.

When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, ‚Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.‘

In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I’ve read a lot of books on the laws of attraction, and in my home, I have a big book on Muhammad Ali, which I’ve read because he is, like, a hero of mine, but other than that, no, I’m not a big reader.

I know I’m stronger in the songs than I really am. Sometimes I need to hear it myself. We all need to hear those empowering songs to remind us.

The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn’t open. The only thing I had was cracks. I’d do everything to get through those cracks – scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it’s as big as a garage.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

As a leader, the first person I need to lead is me. The first person that I should try to change is me.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall.

If some years were added to my life, I would give fifty to the study of the Yi, and then I might come to be without great faults.

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

I find a lot of inspiration through visuals. When I was 12, I saw Aurora’s ‚Runaway‘ music video. Something inside me clicked, like, ‚That is what I want to do, no matter whether it goes anywhere or not.‘

To live outside the law, you must be honest.

I didn’t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

In the ’60s and ’70s and early ’80s, the trainers would grind you, and eventually they would break something – they would break an ankle in ways that it would heal. It was just the way of the business, to ensure that you learned respect for wrestling.

Don’t be a writer; it’s a terrible way to live your life. There’s nothing to be gained from it but poverty and obscurity and solitude. So if you have a taste for all those things, which means that you really are burning to do it, then go ahead and do it. But don’t expect anything from anybody.

A lot was accomplished in my mixtape career. But I still needed a few things: I needed to be recognized. I need to have radio. I need to have a real retail machine that can get us where we need to get that.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time.

I was never really good at anything except for the ability to learn.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

The only way you gain mental toughness is to do things you’re not happy doing. If you continue doing things that you’re satisfied and make you happy, you’re not getting stronger. You’re staying where you’re at. Either you’re getting better, or you’re getting worse. You’re not staying the same.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

Thou know’st the first time that we smell the air we wawl and cry. When we are born we cry, that we are come to this great state of fools.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.

I will not be concerned at other men’s not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it.

Every successful businessman will have experienced set-backs and failures – they’re lying if they say they haven’t. Virgin has had some tremendously successful businesses and some that have not quite worked out. Virgin Cola springs to mind – the product wasn’t distinct enough from Coca-Cola.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

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

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Which death is preferably to every other? ‚The unexpected‘.

I liked school, but I used to dread those moments when the teacher would call me up to give an oral report. I forced myself to deal with it and not dwell on the class in front of me – to keep a straight face, give the report and concentrate on getting it right. That’s normally how I perform. That’s how I am.

I used to get into a lot of fights.

I’m not gonna be bad at anything, and I want to actually be the best at anything I’m doing. So if I’m playing basketball, if I’m taking the SATs, like, there’s a competitive spirit behind it. With production, it’s the same thing.