Walter Raleigh Quotes

I've learned that you have to take responsibility for yourself in this game and lead yourself through it.

Only a fool manages himself.

Discipline yourself, so no one else has to.

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

Self-help and self-control are the essence of the American tradition.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

Success is mine when I work my hardest to become my best, and I alone determine whether I do so.

Whoever wants to be a leader should educate himself before educating others. Before preaching to others he should first practice himself. Whoever educates himself and improves his own morals is superior to the man who tries to teach and train others.

All freedom comes from discipline.

It is we ourselves that we have to think about, no one else. That is the way the saints worked. They paid attention to what they were doing, and if others were attracted to them by their enterprise, why, well and good. But they looked to themselves first of all.

It was in the mid-70's, '74 or '75 I started doing leadership conferences for pastors and in '79 I wrote my first book "Think On These Things".

Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards.

All successes begin with Self-Discipline. It starts with you.

You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

Liberty is the luxury of self-discipline, that those nations historically who have failed to discipline themselves have had discipline imposed by others.

The truly free person in society is a disciplined person.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

How will he who does not know how to govern himself know how to govern others?

There are some things you can give another person, and some things you cannot give him, except as he is willing to reach out and take them, and pay the price of making them a part of himself. This principle applies to studying, to developing talents, to absorbing knowledge, to acquiring skills, and to the learning of all the lessons of life.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Until you are willing to accept total and complete responsibility for every aspect of your life, your life will keep sending you experiences designed to get your attention.

If you’re a serious minded leader, you will read. You will read all you can. You will read when you feel like it, and you will read when you don’t. You will do whatever you have to do to increase your leadership input, because you know as well as I do that it will make you better.