Richard Branson Quotes

It's harder to stay on top than it is to make the climb, Continue to seek new goals.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he sets out to do.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

For me life is continuously being hungry. The meaning of life is not simply to exist, to survive, but to move ahead, to go up, to achieve, to conquer.

Ambition never comes to an end.

Ever up and onward.

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

We tried to convince people that we didn’t have to be last in everything.

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

After many of my victories, I hear people asking me these questions: 'What else is there to win?' And I want to shout, 'What do you mean, what else? There's so much else!'

I couldn't believe I was in the big leagues. I also knew that I have to work hard every single day to stay in the big leagues. One thing is getting to the big leagues; another thing is to stay.

I am the type where I don't worry about anything else but how to top what I did yesterday. My main goal is to top what I did before.

When you think you've made it, you need to keep pushing because the person next to you or your competitor is also getting better, and you need to be able to stay ahead.

It's good to break records, I love it.

So many people get content. So many people stop when they're at the top. They'll let someone take their place because they're relaxing. That's not going to happen.

If you're just trying to get by, you're going to be left behind. The caliber of shows I'm on are incredible, and it makes me just want to raise that bar even more.

The secret of my success is that I always managed to live to fly another day.

I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily.

It's always good to be recognized being the best new cat and then when I hold down my position and stay in the game for a minute, I want to see what kind of (expletive) I'm winning then.

For life affords no higher pleasure, than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified. He that labours in any great or laudable undertaking, has his fatigues first supported by hope, and afterwards rewarded by joy... To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.

Hard things are valuable; easy things are not so valuable. Reaching the mountaintop is rewarding because it is hard. If it was easy, everybody would do it.

Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

Remember, success is not measured by heights attained but by obstacles overcome. We're going to pass through many obstacles in our lives: good days, bad days. But the successful person will overcome those obstacles and constantly move forward.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.