The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.

Doubt in my tradition is something that is very helpful. Because of doubt, you can thirst more and you will get a higher kind of proof.

For me, I don’t want to cheat the game by saying, or kind of doing lip service by saying, I want to be the greatest ever. I want to be able to show it.

Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it… Success is shy – it won’t come out while you’re watching.

If you don’t know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

We spend our lives, all of us, waiting for the great day, the great battle, or the deed of power. But that external consummation is not given to many: nor is it necessary. So long as our being is tensed, directed with passion, towards that which is the spirit of all things, then that spirit will emerge from our own hidden, nameless effort.

Who you are speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you’re saying.

When you’re outside, and everything is highland, it’s like nature has its own sound, and that’s one of my favorite sounds. I really loved sitting still silently outside, in a tree or in a bush, to just think.

Well I think a lot of times we’re putting things off and I’m going to do it later. I’m going to break this bad habit or I’m going to pursue this dream or I’m going to treat my spouse better.

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.

Mental toughness is a lifestyle. It’s something that you live every single day of your life. When I was growing up, I was a lazy kid. I was a lazy kid, and everybody goes, ‚How did you get to where you’re at today? How did you get to where you’re running 200 miles at one time in 39 hours? Being so disciplined?‘

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

My general attitude to life is to enjoy every minute of every day. I never do anything with a feeling of, ‚Oh God, I’ve got to do this today.‘

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Day by day we should weigh what we have granted to the spirit of the world against what we have denied to the spirit of Jesus, in thought and especially in deed.

I do not abuse players. I talk to myself; I abuse myself. It’s my way of letting off steam. I do it after every century; I do not do it always. I keep telling myself: ‚Improve, improve from the previous match, the previous shot. You can do it.‘

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.

People always tell you, ‚Be humble. Be humble.‘ When was the last time someone told you to be amazing? Be great! Be great! Be awesome! Be awesome!

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.

Correcting bad habits cannot be done by forbidding or punishment.

A lot of people cry and complain and put their hand out and beg. It never goes well.

No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Adopt responsibility for your own well-being, try to put your family together, try to serve your community, try to seek for eternal truth… That’s the sort of thing that can ground you in your life, enough so that you can withstand the difficulty of life.

I don’t think about the end game. I’ve got lots to occupy my mind. It’s the rage that keeps me going.

How about a little noise. How do you expect a man to putt?

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.

I’m always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I’m going to get up in the morning.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

Knowledge about life is one thing; effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another.

Let go of offence. Let go of fear. Let go of revenge. Don’t live angry, let go now!

Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity – the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

If you stop struggling, then you stop life.

Pay attention, don’t let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box.

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

I am the center of attention in my job every single day; the thought of a wedding to me is exhausting. Why would I put myself through that?

I have the Midas touch, in the way that when I hook up with a project, I feel, not speaking cocky or conceited, but there’s a confidence I have. I learned that from Muhammad Ali; I used to bodyguard him. He taught me about confidence. So when it comes to any job I work, I’m gonna do it good; I’m going to bring it over the top.

I’m an expert typist. I learned in high school. I would close my eyes and just type without worrying about mistakes. I tried to penetrate my heart, and as I let my thoughts drift, things bubbled up to the surface.

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

Any hand that I’ve shaken, any person that I met when I was Joe Blow, now that I’m this guy Kevin Hart, has come back. That’s why I treat everybody with respect. I’m always a nice pleasant guy to meet because when they come back to you, they remember.

Nobody likes to fail. I want to succeed in everything I do, which isn’t much. But the things that I’m really passionate about, if I fail at those, if I’m not successful, what do I have?

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.