Farhan Akhtar Quotes

A New Year's resolution that I can never keep? To be able to make decisions.

I know. I'm lazy. But I made myself a New Years resolution that I would write myself something really special. Which means I have 'til December, right?

Sometimes we know the best thing to do, but fail to do it. New year's resolutions are often like that. We make resolutions because we know it would be better for us to lose weight, or get fit, or spend more time with our children. The problem is that a resolution is generally easier to break than it is to keep.

It's hard for me to come up with a plan and hold my players accountable until I self-evaluate and hold myself accountable.

I believed and still believe that success is only part of the story. It makes you want to get better and better so as not to let yourself down and not to let the people down who like what you do and you don't waste your success.

When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn't try to put your pants on today. You simply put them on. The same has to hold for all of our intentions. We don't try to be more loving partners. We make the intention, and we act on it.

There's a need for accepting responsibility - for a person's life and making choices that are not just ones for immediate short-term comfort. You need to make an investment, and the investment is in health and education.

I think each one of us has committed to improving.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I have a rigid self-accountability. You have to work hard.

Resolutions are a wonderful thing if we can keep them, but many resolutions go by the wayside because we have not done anything different with our mindset.

I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.

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.

Never let a day pass that you will have cause to say, I will do better tomorrow.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

You need to make a commitment, and once you make it, then life will give you some answers.

As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a family myself, I probably never would've done anything. Marriage taught me responsibility.

January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

Dedicating myself to actually following through was my single biggest achievement.

If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.

If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.

I was just a start-and-stop guy. I could never really follow through on anything that I started.

If I put a statement about being the best interviewer into the universe, I must now live up to it, or at least be held accountable for it. Either way, I'm going to work that much harder.

I worked really hard and changed myself and became a more mature player.