Richard Branson Quotes

No matter who you are, and no matter what you've accomplished, I have yet to meet someone who doesn't still feel like they're banging their head against some wall over something in their way.

We develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and obstacles.

I have always grown from my problems and challenges, from the things that don't work out, that's when I've really learned.

As a player and a coach, I've had plenty of great moments, but I've also experienced disappointments. The disappointments are not about self-doubt, but rather about change. I've always seen failures as a personal challenge. I say to myself: Now I have to find out if I have the right stuff.

If the challenge seems a bit too overwhelming, that's the one you want. Take it on & let it pull you up.

I've spent my whole life learning how to do things that were hard for me.

It’s not the struggles that define you; it’s how you overcome them.

There are so many lessons in life that can be learned through golf. I am not afraid to say that I am still learning some of them and probably will continue for some time.

I'm in a stage where I feel like I need to retrain my mind, because since the beginning of my career, I've been such a fighter and a little hustler and someone who just tried to stay afloat in this business.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Build up your weaknesses until they become your strong points.

A lot of things we're supposed to do are hard to do, but we can do them. They're always beneficial. Really, some things that are hard are beneficial.

I just want people to know you can get through stuff. I hope people can see that in what my life has been and where it is going.

I hope that I'm always struggling, really. You develop when you're struggling. When you're struggling, you get stronger.

Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

I think there's a great beauty to having problems. That's one of the ways we learn.

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

You learn more from the flops than from the hits.

In junior high school, I learned that I could be good at school. I remember liking the freedom to choose classes and the pleasure of learning and doing well. My perseverance and love of reading had somehow allowed me to overcome many disadvantages of dyslexia, and I read a lot of books for pleasure.

The bad experiences make you stronger and makes you focus on the next project.

When things don't come so naturally to you, you want to persevere, you want to keep pushing yourself to overcome obstacles that prevent you from having the kind of life that you want to have.

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the end. You're not a hero unless you've gone through the trials. And it makes these moments so much sweeter, so much better. I don't believe in 'deserved,' but I might believe in 'earned.'

You have to handle the challenges and emerge stronger from them, rather than allow them to bog you down.

I've never, ever tried to make life easy for myself.

My biggest satisfaction was to learn, inexperienced as I was, that it is possible to find ways out of the deepest difficulties.