Richard Branson Quotes

I have no major regrets. I've made the conscious decision not to look at life that way. I always try to learn something - to take something away from the situation.

You can make almost anything a learning or positive experience. I think I offer a good example of how to make the most out of what life gives you and how to keep moving on.

There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

What we actually learn, from any given set of circumstances, determines whether we become increasingly powerless or more powerful.

I made so many mistakes in my first successful business I'm almost embarrassed to recount them.

We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.

I don't waste any time at all. I have no time at all for people who are being very negative or people who are very whiny or people who feel sorry for themselves. I tend to go to them and just say, you don't understand how incredible life is and how precious it is.

Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

I endeavor to make the most of everything.

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.

Circumstances do not push or pull. They are daily lessons to be studied and gleaned for new knowledge and wisdom. Knowledge and wisdom that is applied will bring about a brighter tomorrow. A person who is depressed is spending too much time thinking about the way things are now and not enough time thinking about how he wants things to be.

Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution.

I think everything in life happens for a reason. I always think there's room for me to improve as a person.

If we don't see a failure as a challenge to modify our approach, but rather as a problem with ourselves, as a personality defect, we will immediately feel overwhelmed.

We’ve all seen the same situation happen to two people. One looks for the lesson, sets their shoulders back and presses on while the other asks ‘why does it always happen to me?’ You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive.

A perspective that allows you to consistently make decisions based on the right set of criteria. Positivity and forward thinking. I work on that one every day, and every day I get a little better. Better at knowing that there is no obstacle that I cannot overcome. Nothing I can be faced with that I won't grow mentally stronger and wiser from having endured.

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."

I think that no matter how much you don't like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it.

The thing is, we live in a contemporary world, and being able to make yourself the best person you can possible be can be difficult. But as long as you're trying to figure it out, and you're really looking in the right direction, everything's going to be all right.

I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.

If in any case I did find error in that which I have collected from my natural understanding, I should count it good fortune, since I enjoy life, and endeavour to pass it not in weeping and sighing, but in peace, joy, and cheerfulness, and from time to time climb thereby a step higher.

I did go through a bit of a dark time during the years I was trying to be a mom. But I'm basically a very positive person.

I've had a wonderful life. The reason it's been a wonderful life is I've made conscious choices to get up, to basically love life.

I like to think I am the sort of person who tries to make the best of things and try to look at the positive side of things.