You can’t be your best until you find your peace.

Change can be uncomfortable, but it is necessary for personal and societal growth.

I am confident in my ability, as I always have been, and that I will be capable of maintaining my form, if not improving, year in, year out.

I’ve learned that you should only try to be better than who you were yesterday.

In the beginning, I wrote OK songs, but they didn’t have a unique perspective.

When I came into Test cricket, I was good but not as good as I am now.

I never played for numbers.

Everybody enjoys each other’s success. We are always pushing each other to get better on the field and off the field, helping each other out in the nets or in the gym. That’s the most important thing.

As a cricketer – or any sportsperson, for that matter – you like yourself to be tested and get better all the time.

There are no accidents in salvation. Those who are to meet will meet, because together they have the potential for a holy relationship. They are ready for each other.

The universe is always delivering change, both positive and negative, to help guide us toward our highest potential.

I’m quite annoying and can’t imagine what it would be like living with me 24/7.

Perhaps I am stronger than I think

Now I have the bravery to do fine things.

I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence

The greatest reward comes from stepping out of your comfort zone.

Life is like a rollercoaster ride. Enjoy the ups and learn from the downs.
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Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Failure is not the end, but an opportunity for growth and self-reflection.

I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn’t see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I’m older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

If they hadn’t tried to break me down, I wouldn’t know that I’m unbreakable.

Success is not just about winning. It’s about the lessons learned along the way.

When I first decided I wanted to make beats and write songs and stuff like that, it wasn’t like I sat down and the first thing I wrote was even halfway legit. It took a while to find my way through it.

Let us all try to stand a little taller, rise a little higher, be a little better. Make the extra effort. You will be happier.

We cannot expect to lift others unless we stand on higher ground ourselves.

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Aspire to be better than yesterday, not better than anyone else.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me.

When I am making music, I am growing at the same time, ain’t I?

Like anybody, I like clothes, and I enjoy what I like to wear. We might have a difference in personal outfit choices. Some might not like it. But to judge someone because of their appearance is pretty foolish. If you have time to do that, I suggest you look at yourself in the mirror and spend more time developing yourself. Come on, it’s 2013.

Most people search high and wide for the key to success. If they only knew, the key to their dreams lies within.

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.

My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go – not too often, but every now and then – to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

You got to want to evolve. It’s something you can practice on but it just came to me. I wasn’t really sitting there like, ‘What can I do to get better?’ It just came to me, talking to my people and my crew. They just tell me what my strongest and weakest points are at

I’m a good guy at the end of the day, you know what I’m saying? A lot of people will believe what they see in the media from a long time ago. I’m just growing as an artist and as a person.

You got to have a strong mind if you fall back. When you fall back, they going to count you out. So you got to have a strong mind and know your worth. When you come back, you’ve got to be different and even more better.

You cannot expect to achieve new goals or move beyond your present circumstances unless you change.

Things may happen around you, and things may happen to you, but the only things that really count are the things that happen in you.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

Today, you expand or you are expendable.

You have to be willing to allow the person you are today to die so that you can give birth to the person you are meant to become.

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

Find someone who has the life that you want and figure how they got it. Read books. Pick your role models wisely. Find out what they did and do it.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

I’m still exploring in a lot of ways. I don’t know myself completely.

Be thankful for the hard times, for they have made you.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it. It’s a great outlet. As for myself, I’m not sure who I am. It seems that I change every day.

The sooner you start being fearless, the better.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

As a driver, you’ve always got to believe in your heart that you’ve got what it takes to win it. You’ve always got to believe in yourself. You’ve always got to arrive on the day and believe it can happen. You’ve always got to believe in the positives.

I always thought about carrying on training and working, chasing my dream.

When someone seeks to confirm his elect status by a direct, personal contact with someone famous, he runs the risk of being thrown out, like the woman who loved Kissinger.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

It doesn’t matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you’ve got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you.

Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.