Women have to summon up courage to fulfill dormant dreams.

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

Winning is the most important. Everything is consequence of that.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

I think, because I started Virgin when I was a teenager, it has become a part of me, like my family, and I am motivated by ambition for it, almost as if it were a child.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Young men and women, your education is ever important – to us, to you, and to God.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Commit yourself to a mighty purpose.

If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

Ambition can creep as well as soar.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Exercise is labor without weariness.

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.

If you’ve got a plan, it’s not just like a pipe dream. You have a step-by-step list of things to do to get to your goal.

Wine gives a man nothing… it only puts in motion what had been locked up in frost.

I just kind of wake up with a new idea and new dreams every day, and I follow that dream, as they say.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Many times, we miss out on God’s best because we give up too soon. We don’t realize how close we are to victory.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.

When I was a little girl, I always dreamed of being a star. I didn’t really know what all that meant. I didn’t know.

That’s all I could ever hope for, to have a positive effect on women. ‚Cos women are powerful, powerful beings. But they’re also the most doubtful beings. They’ll never know – we’ll never know – how powerful we are.

You have to be someone.

You have to be a bastard to make it, and that’s a fact. And the Beatles are the biggest bastards on earth.

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

People say ‚I want to be rich‘. The question is, ‚Are you willing to do what it takes?‘

I break ground. I trailblaze.

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.

Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny.

I always make my dreams into goals.

I would like to go back to Wales. I’m obsessed with my childhood and at least three times a week dream I am back there.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

As long as I’m learning something, I figure I’m OK – it’s a decent day.

You have to feel confident. If you don’t, then you’re going to be hesitant and defensive, and there’ll be a lot of things working against you.

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

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

People want you to fail.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

One ought never to turn one’s back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in.

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

I don’t feel pressure in a negative way. I like pressure. I feel excitement and calm at the same time. No pressure, no diamonds. I want pressure: pressure creates drama, creates emotion.

I’m just a kid that defied the odds. I’m just a kid that ignored the doubt. I’m just a kid from a little place in Dublin, Ireland, that went all the way, and I’m going to continue to go all the way.

Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

Life is a journey. When we stop, things don’t go right.

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?