A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed… Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Players now have a groin injury for months and months, and I often think they don’t really give a toss whether they’re playing or not because they’re getting paid anyway.

I don’t let even a day go by wherein I don’t give at 100 per cent.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

We acquire the strength we have overcome.

Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

When I get down, I don’t waller around for long.

Doing well is the result of doing good. That’s what capitalism is all about.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I’d like to think you don’t stop being creative once you get happy. My ultimate goal is to end up being happy. Most of the time.

Set up a situation that presents you with something slightly beyond your reach.

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

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.

Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory.

You have to be able to accept failure to get better.

I can’t do nothing just a little.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

God wants you to be a winner, not a whiner.

You can say that 2016 was my finest. It went well for the national team, started by winning the SAFF Cup, we reached the finals of AFC Cup, we reached the semis of ISL. I think it was a fruitful season.

Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Execute every act of thy life as though it were thy last.

I set records that will never be equaled. In fact, I hope 90% of them don’t even get printed.

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!

You’ll never rise any higher than the way you see yourself.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

I think it’s healthy for a person to be nervous. It means you care – that you work hard and want to give a great performance. You just have to channel that nervous energy into the show.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I’m pretty positive, optimistic, so I always expect the best.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions – Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions, go ahead.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

It’s stasis that kills you off in the end, not ambition.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

To remain a credible leader, I must always work first, hardest, and longest on changing myself. This is neither easy nor natural, but it is essential.

When I was about thirteen, the library was going to get ‚Calculus for the Practical Man.‘ By this time I knew, from reading the encyclopedia, that calculus was an important and interesting subject, and I ought to learn it.

A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?

I don’t want to be too critical of what other people do, but when people go back to do the same thing that they did, I’m completely confused. I’m like, ‚Didn’t you make that movie already?‘ I’ve been very fortunate, and I’m well taken care of, so the least I can do is try to go forward.

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I’m not very articulate.

Anytime someone tells me that I can’t do something, I want to do it more.

People don’t care about what someone says about you in a movie – or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people’s life better, then that’s something that’s really good.

Your timeless self does not age and has no fear of the future. Contemplate your physical self and all its possessions, and practice laughing peacefully at it all.

Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

If I’d had some set idea of a finish line, don’t you think I would have crossed it years ago?

I realised a little bit to my astonishment that I can give a lecture for a thousand people, and there will be this tumultuous applause, so, you know, I have the feeling well, it can’t be all that bad.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I’m kind of fascist with myself, you know.