Richard Branson Quotes

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

Without pain, without sacrifice we would have nothing. Like the first monkey shot into space.

Collaboration. ... For me, it has informed every move I've ever made. And it saved me in many ways and still does. When things get hard, you can cling to the work.

If you put a person in a training gym made out of entire gold, it doesn't guarantee that this person will become a champion. But if you put a person in the basement, then there is a high chance that he will get out of this basement as a champion.

Every team boat will have its disagreements and arguments, but if it doesn't kill us or the boat, it will make us stronger.

That's the easiest thing to do, is quit and give up when things are hard. You really see what you're made of when those things are not going the way you want them to go.

My desire to contribute to the spaceflight team as we move forward in our exploration of space has only increased over the years.

Through a forest of challenges, thought moves and squirms, resisting beguilements; if it endures, it emerges pure.

There are moments when tribulations occur in our lives, and we cannot avoid them. But they are there for some reason.

Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

You've got to roll with the punches to get to what's real.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat.

My life has been full of struggles - coming from a troubled home, moving out when I was fifteen, ending up homeless by eighteen. The one thing I always knew was being jaded and bitter was equal to letting life win.

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit... and keep moving forward.

Adversity is the mint in which God stamps upon man his image and superscription.

Life is a challenge, we must take it.

When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.

In the end everything will be okay. But hurdles have to be jumped through first.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

I find life itself provides ample and sufficient tests of my valor and mettle: illness; betrayal; fruitless searches for love; working for the abusive, the insane, and the despotic. All challenges easily as thrilling to me as scrambling over icy rock in a pair of barely adequate boots.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end.

Life is a series of failures punctuated by brief successes.