Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

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.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

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

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I would show altruism and exert moral strength, patience and all those other great attributes.

I know I haven't always done things the right way. I'm just trying to reflect on how to make myself better, how to become a better man, a better father, a better person, a better artist.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

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

It does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year

I'm a good man, and I'm gonna become a better man.

I think the very idea of character, of developing not just grit, but empathy and curiosity, emotional intelligence - you know, the things that I want my own daughters to develop - the idea that we're going to get there through rewards and punishments seems completely at odds with the idea of character itself.

I can only control myself, my actions, my work ethic, and my attitude.

Thanks to my upbringing, I lead a disciplined life, which is very important.

Happie is hee that chastens himselfe.

The ultimate goal of discipline is to teach self discipline.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

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

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

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.

The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim.

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

I couldn't make sense of things. But then I began the process of civilising myself and trying to become a decent human being. I'm still working on it.