Josiah Royce Quotes

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

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

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

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

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?

Like some high official, you have to tell your brain: 'Do it. Come on. I have to do it.'

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

I always say leave things at the door. Whether it's at your audition or at your house, leave the problems of the day away. Keep persevering, stick to yourself. Don't do what other people ask, do what you want!

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do.

I try not to do anything I don't like, so I stay motivated pretty easily.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

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.

Everything is generated through your own will power.

Now I also discipline myself to do things I love to do when I don't want to do them.

Whatever it is that gives you that confidence will vary from person to person, but I do believe that it is the key to succeeding at anything in life - career, relationships, anything.

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.

I think self-reliance and self-responsibility and self-accountability will help you as a parent, a teacher, as a citizen as a friend.

I'm very ambitious, but I also love myself - which means I try to take care of myself.

Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.

Giving people self-confidence is by far the most important thing that I can do. Because then they will act.

My only power is my ability to do something with passion and do it well. It's also something someone cannot take way from me, so it's very valuable.

I'm highly critical of myself. There's not something someone else might say that makes me feel I need to be motivated in a different way. I'm a self-motivated guy.

I want to prove myself.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.