Mark Goulston Quotes

Self-respect leads to self-discipline.

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

By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.

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

Not only am I constantly seeking better performance but also to be a better person, to be respected.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

We are apt to love praise, but not deserve it. But if we would deserve it, we must love virtue more than that.

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.

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

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

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world will continually show some respect to the will, the will shall consent to be strenuous in its industry.

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

And the greatest lesson that mom ever taught me though was this one. She told me there would be times in your life when you have to choose between being loved and being respected. Now she said to always pick being respected.

My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'

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.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

Honor is a gift a man gives himself. You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But you've got to want it.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

You're always concerned for your character. You should be.

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.

The most splendid achievement of all is the constant striving to surpass yourself and to be worthy of your own approval.

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.

In order to keep himself at the top of his condition, to obtain complete mastery of all his powers and possibilities, a man must be good to himself mentally; he must think well of himself.

I don't think I could live with myself if I stopped trying.