There is only one way… to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

If you try to fight the course, it will beat you.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

We live in a day that nobody’s lived in before: where you can touch more people. The message I’ll speak tonight and the message that I speak at home, people in India will hear. It’s just an amazing day.

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.

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

The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.

The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention.

The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.

I know from having had a child, and from having been a child myself, that children will copy you.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

People tend to think that life really does progress for everyone eventually, that people progress, but actually only some people progress. The rest of the people don’t.

If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

Winners embrace hard work. They love the discipline of it, the trade-off they’re making to win. Losers, on the other hand, see it as punishment. And that’s the difference.

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.

When you find a guy who is powerful, a big father figure, you latch onto him immediately.

Business opportunities are like buses, there’s always another one coming.

The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.

As long as a man stands in his own way, everything seems to be in his way.

Life can be boring unless you put some effort into it.

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.

Being self-made means never making an excuse as to why you can’t take steps toward whatever your goal is.

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What’s a sundial in the shade?

You can only have one aim per debate.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

It’s human nature to blame someone else for your shortcomings or upsets.

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

So long as a man imagines that he cannot do this or that, so long as he is determined not to do it; and consequently so long as it is impossible to him that he should do it.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Don’t wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Just remember, you can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.

If my edge is dull, my sword is dull, and I don’t want to fight another guy whose sword is dull. If you’ve got two steel swords going back and forth hitting each other, what’s gonna happen? Both of them are going to get sharper. Everybody that’s in the industry has lost their edge.

Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.

What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that’s worthwhile, that they’re going to be proud to show to friends and family.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

I only want my work to make people happy.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

What I’d really like to control is not machines, but people.

I’m afraid to fail again.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success.