Frederick William Robertson Quotes

Everybody wants to be good, but not many are prepared to make the sacrifices it takes to be great. To many people, being nice in order to be liked is more important. There's equal merit in that, but you must not confuse being good with being liked.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

The only person who can help Balotelli is Balotelli.

I'm not going to see anybody else in the mirror. That's how I live, day by day. When I look in the mirror, it's up to me to accomplish everything I want out of life.

Mature striving is linked to long-range goals. Thus, the process of becoming is largely a matter of organizing transitory impulses into a pattern of striving and interest in which the element of self-awareness plays a large part.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.

The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Look around the inhabited world; how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.

Inspiration comes from within yourself. One has to be positive. When you're positive, good things happen.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I have the wherewithal to challenge myself for my entire life. That's a great gift.

As a teenager, rather than setting myself on a course to pursue fame (quite common growing up in L.A., the entertainment capital of the world), happiness, fulfillment, and spiritual enlightenment (also quite common), I skipped right on to trying to be successful. 'Let's just get on with it,' I felt. 'Onward' became my motto.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

It's all in how you look at your life, because no one has a wonderful life. But you can make it what you want it to be.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.

One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.