AB de Villiers Quotes

I made the mistake of thinking that external accomplishments would bring me peace. I thought it was about the job or a book or making a name for myself.

I'm at peace with myself and where I am. In the past, I was always looking to see how everybody else was doing. I wasn't competitive, I was comparative. I just wanted to be where everybody else was. Now I've gotten to an age when I am not comparing anymore.

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place.

I have many shortcomings. I feel very lucky to have been able to have what I've had.

Robin Leach is a guy who, when he has the time, goes quietly to his house in Connecticut and sits looking into the fire with a good glass of red wine in his hand. And when I wake up in the morning, I wink at myself because I like me - I know who I am.

You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.

My life is exactly the way it needs to be.

I'm happy with the person I become.

If you desire to know or learn anything to your advantage, then take delight in being unknown and unregarded. A true understanding and humble estimate of oneself is the highest and most valuable of all lessons.

I'm pretty happy with who I am. I like myself and what I'm doing. I don't need to be the world's greatest director or the most famous -- or the richest. I don't need to make a whole lot of great films. I can do my job and I can do it pretty well. This is the realization I've come to, later in life. It's called growing up.

I never had time to dream about being anyone else.

I don't like my whole life dragged out. I don't want anyone to know about me, because I don't think I'm very interesting... I like my work. I like what I gave. And that was it.

I'm having the life that I kind of hoped I might have one time, you know? I do feel like I have a place here. And, at least, I deserve it, as much as anybody else, hopefully.

I think once you get it in your head, that you're not going to do anything bigger, you just do things that you enjoy, which has always been my ethos anyway.

I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.

The superior man is distressed by the limitations of his ability; he is not distressed by the fact that men do not recognize the ability that he has.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.

Strive to find things to be thankful for, and just look for the good in who you are!

This age thing is all up to you. It's like happiness is up to you. You just have to understand what it is before you get it.

I don't see myself as the perfect person at all.

I'm a very contented, peaceful man. I made mistakes, yes, but I accepted them, and, I hope, graciously.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

The good and the wise lead quiet lives.