Clint Eastwood Quotes

Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.

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

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

Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?

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

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

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

I can only do my thing and do the best that I can.

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

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

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

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

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

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.

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

For me, self-esteem-building and confidence-building is the foundation for anything that we do, whether you want to be a writer, a painter, or a entrepreneur.

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.

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.

You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

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

A man is always better than he thinks.

I try to be the same person I was yesterday.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts.

I can't worry about external factors, I have to focus on myself.

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.