Grenville Kleiser Quotes

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline; the sense of dignity grows with the ability to say no to oneself.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.

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.

Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.

Respect for self is the beginning of cultivating virtue in men and women.

An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.

I think self-discipline is something, it's like a muscle. The more you exercise it, the stronger it gets.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it's up to me to choose to develop them.

My self-belief has always been there but it is about managing it the right way.

When you're actually boxing, unless it's a proper grudge match, it's less about beating the person up and more about being better within yourself. Being patient, timing things, like chess, so really, it's as much down to you as what the other person does - and that's life.

Boxing's a bit like the Army, nine out of 10 people come out as pretty nice people. It taught me self-worth, to respect my elders and what the right thing was to do. As a result, I don't think I even got a single detention at school. It helped me to be good.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

There is a direct relationship between self-discipline and self-esteem.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

I can tell you character traits I admire and work to develop in myself - perseverance, self-discipline, courage to stand up for what is right even when it is against one's friends or one's self.

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.