The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That’s what I enjoy now.
Virat KohliI realized quickly what Mandela and Tambo meant to ordinary Africans. It was a place where they could come and find a sympathetic ear and a competent ally, a place where they would not be either turned away or cheated, a place where they might actually feel proud to be represented by men of their own skin color.
Nelson MandelaApply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
PlatoI do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas JeffersonThe word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungI don’t think about that. I wasn’t a kid growing up saying one day I’ll get an Oscar and make a speech. That wasn’t on my mind. So what I do is the best work I can do.
Adam SandlerYour successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusLife is too short not to celebrate nice moments!
Jurgen KloppPeople have told me, ‚You shouldn’t bring your daughter onto the podium, ‚cause it’s the workplace,‘ and things like that. But I’m not gonna really listen to that. I’m gonna do what I think is fun for me and my family, and everything’ll be all right.
Stephen CurryVictory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon BonaparteAdversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Elvis PresleyWhen you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Paulo CoelhoBeing a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.
Bad BunnyIf you look at any Muslim society and you make a scale of how developed they are, and how successful the economy is, it’s a straight line. It depends on how much they emancipate their women.
Christopher HitchensI’ve told Billy if I ever caught him cheating, I wouldn’t kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.
Angelina JolieFirst they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
Mahatma GandhiHe who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel JohnsonSometimes I can’t figure designers out. It’s as if they flunked human anatomy.
Erma BombeckIf you’re the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I’m a parent. I have daughters.
EminemLove is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Barack Obama would not be President if he were dark skin. You know what I mean? That’s just the truth. I might not be as successful as I am now if I was dark skin.
J. ColeOne thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert SchweitzerThe important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
Neil ArmstrongIf you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help… Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business – you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen.
Barack ObamaPrecepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen I was growing up, I wanted to adopt, because I was aware there were kids that didn’t have parents.
Angelina JolieMy mother, I suppose, is still a main figure in my life because her life was so sad and unfair, and she so brave, but also because she was determined to make me into the Sunday-school-recitation little girl I was, from the age of seven or so, fighting not to be.
Alice MunroDiligence is the mother of good luck.
Benjamin FranklinAbove anything else, I hate to lose.
Jackie RobinsonSuccess does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard ShawDignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
Charles DickensThose who know me know I’m passionate about lists, and top of my list of priorities is my family. My wife Joan and I do not consider our legacy to our children to be wealth or fame but the opportunity to pursue happiness by following their own path.
Richard BransonThe way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Abraham LincolnKnow then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.
Alexander PopeProbably my first couple years in the league, I started paying more attention to what I was wearing. Once I got a few bucks in my pocket and I could afford some nice things, and you get to go, ‚OK, let’s try some of these things.‘ And once you try something you like, you probably don’t change it much.
Tom BradyIt needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that’s the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
Jurgen KloppOld age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.
Theodore RooseveltOf all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.
Lao TzuKings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard ShawFame can take interesting men and thrust mediocrity upon them.
David BowieThere’s a deceptive sin that can keep us from walking in love: pride. It’s deceptive because when you have pride, you’re usually too proud to admit it. I know this because I used to have teachings on pride and they didn’t sell well.
Joyce MeyerAll successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.
Brian TracyIn my opinion, rankings are a very fickle measurement of one’s success and it is best to not get carried away by it.
Sunil ChhetriI wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I’ve been working nonstop since I was 15. I don’t even know how to chill out.
Beyonce KnowlesWinners 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.
Lou HoltzOur plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for, no wind is the right wind.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThis character feels so much like my brother. He has two children. He has a wife. He works with me. He chooses to stay in New Hampshire because he wants his kids to grow up in the school they started with. He doesn’t want them to lose friends. He is his family’s hero.
Adam SandlerWhether you come from a council estate or a country estate, your success will be determined by your own confidence and fortitude.
Michelle ObamaMy grandmother used to embarrass me more, when she would pick me up from school wearing a big fuzzy hat. I didn’t like that.
Adam SandlerThe happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
Marcus AureliusAim for the highest.
Andrew CarnegieDoing Saturday Night Live definitely affects my relationship with my girlfriend and with my family, because you feel so much pressure to do well that night. But I think everyone’s grown to accept that and so they give me my space at the show.
Adam SandlerA man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel JohnsonThe dinosaurs aren’t remembered for much more than their bones. When humanity’s gone, what do we give to this little planet that we’re on, and what could we do collectively, removing the pride?
Kanye WestWe must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. JohnsonThe greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSaints can be happy under every circumstance.
Russell M. NelsonI think in defeat you grope for things that are happy, and it’s hard.
George H. W. BushI love soft-cotton white T-shirts.
Kevin HartA man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.
Oscar Wilde