People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.

Whether you want to go into music, whether you want to be a lawyer, whether you want to be President of the United States, the bottom line for all of you is that you have got to get your education.

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.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

I went through a lot of battles in high school.

Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

Perseverance is also key to success in any endeavor, but without perseverance in combat, there can be no victory.

Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.

We was able to become real successful in the mixtape space.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

We came up with TDE. As competitive as rap is, and as much as we’re trying to exceed the standards we set for ourselves, we take their wins as our wins, too.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

I don’t want no handouts. I want to get it out the mud.

The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

Unless and until you inspire the people, you will not get results. Imposition will never give you the results. Inspiration will always give you the results.

A brand for a company is like a reputation for a person. You earn reputation by trying to do hard things well.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

When you tell a recruiter that you’re almost 300 pounds and you want to be a SEAL, it doesn’t go too well. I got hung up on a lot.

My life is a struggle.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

You might win some, you might lose some. But you go in, you challenge yourself, you become a better man, a better individual, a better fighter.

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.

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

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.

I want to let you in on a little secret: I don’t always feel like I’m a success. That’s right. There are plenty of times when I feel like I’ve just totally messed up and failed to connect with the people I’m trying to communicate with.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination.

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.

Never give in – never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there… and still on your feet.

My drive is other people’s success.

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.

I’ve accomplished enough with the music that I haven’t had to go out there and do other things to over-saturate.

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.

I’ve made money, and I’ve been ripped off. I’ve had creative freedom, and I’ve been pressured to make hits. I have dealt with diva behavior from crazy musicians, and I have seen genius records by wonderful artists get completely ignored. I love music. I always will.

If you’re going to be a winner in life, you have to constantly go beyond your best.

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.

It’s rule number one, really – beating your teammate.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

A jug fills drop by drop.

Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.

You have to stay faithful to what you’re working on.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

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

I am a lucky man. I have had a dream and it has come true, and that is not a thing that happens often to men.

You know, not to sound corny or nuthin‘, but I felt like a fighter comin‘ up, man. I felt like, you know, I’m being attacked for this reason or that reason, and I gotta fight my way through this.

Of course, there are those critics – New York critics as a rule – who say, ‚Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it’s good but then she’s a natural writer.‘ Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.

You have to motivate yourself with challenges. That’s how you know you’re still alive.

A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions.

To have a comeback, you have to have a setback.