Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that’s one of the hardest things to do because you don’t always know exactly where you’re going, and you shouldn’t.

I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.

Learning to live for others isn’t something that just comes naturally to anybody. You have to train yourself to do it.

Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes.

Don’t compare yourself with other people; compare yourself with who you were yesterday.

You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it’s really let us down.

Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.

Einstein’s gravitational theory, which is said to be the greatest single achievement of theoretical physics, resulted in beautiful relations connecting gravitational phenomena with the geometry of space; this was an exciting idea.

Winning takes precedence over all. There’s no gray area. No almosts.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

I have goals.

I don’t think I will ever be content. I am somebody who is always hungry.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry – writing at writing.

We can take a ‚It was hard to get there.‘ But we ain’t taking no loss. We’re going to win.

How hard, how bitter it is to become a man!

California has a special relationship with the Internet. Many of the core technologies that power the Internet were invented here. Many of the most successful online entrepreneurs and content creators – in business, the arts, and countless other endeavors – got their start here.

Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.

We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it.

We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

An unused life is an early death.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do. And I’ve changed my mind about a lot of things over the years.

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.

When you’re older you want to learn from other people.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

He who gives away shall have real gain. He who subdues himself shall be free; he shall cease to be a slave of passions. The righteous man casts off evil, and by rooting out lust, bitterness, and illusion do we reach Nirvana.

If I get stuck, I look at a book that tells me how someone else did it. I turn the pages, and then I say, ‚Oh, I forgot that bit,‘ then close the book and carry on. Finally, after you’ve figured out how to do it, you read how they did it and find out how dumb your solution is and how much more clever and efficient theirs is!

I knew ‚Crenshaw‘ had elevated me and distinguished me.

I’m here to spread a message of hope. Follow your heart. Don’t follow what you’ve been told you’re supposed to do.

Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

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

I’ve learned over the years that when I go to that place of passion within me, there’s no force in the universe that can interfere with my completing a project.

We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don’t let yourself be lulled into inaction.

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people’s children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.

We’re constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

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.

Man is made by his belief. As he believes, so he is.

As I followed my dream – stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired – I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.

Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

The one way to get me to work my hardest was to doubt me.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

Forget the past.

Time and money spent in helping men to do more for themselves is far better than mere giving.

When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

It’s normal for human beings to identify with their own separate self. The problem is that we get caught in that notion of ourself as a separate individual and caught in that individual self’s agenda.

Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.