AB de Villiers Quotes

I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'

Spending too much time focused on others' strengths leaves us feeling weak. Focusing on our own strengths is what, in fact, makes us strong.

My bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and my talent are my title.

She told me I wasn't playing for the coach, I was playing for myself.

I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me; I will be concerned at my own want of ability.

There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

I'm never the kind of person who's sitting at home reading the charts and basing how I feel about myself or even my career on stats. I've always based it on, 'Am I doing the best that I can do?'

A man is always better than he thinks.

A wise man never loses anything, if he has himself.

Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

You have to go out there and focus on yourself and not who you are up against.

You have to empower yourself.

I am confident about who I am as a person, my character, and as a human being.

You can never satisfy other people, I learned. End of the day, it's extremely important that you know yourself better than anybody else, and if you can do that, it doesn't matter what anybody thinks about you, good or bad.

It doesn't matter who I'm facing. I'm concentrating on myself.

Try to be the best version of yourself.

People always say that I'm just a beautiful face. So immediately, I knew what I wanted. I wanted to be recognized to be more than that.

You have to know your strengths and tell yourself you're the best.

You can have all the tools in the world but if you don't genuinely believe in yourself, it's useless.

Self-love, it is obvious, remains always positive and active in our natures.

A solid sense of self will help a person to lead a full and happy life.

Long-term, we must begin to build our internal strengths. It isn't just skills like computer technology. It's the old-fashioned basics of self-reliance, self-motivation, self-reinforcement, self-discipline, self-command.

People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.