Respect your efforts, respect yourself. Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that’s real power.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Self-respect, Respect, Self Respect
Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Control, Action
I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Reason
I’ve got a firm policy on gun control; If there”s a gun around, I want to be the one controlling it
—Clint Eastwood
It takes tremendous discipline to control the influence, the power you have over other people’s lives.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Discipline, Influence
I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Prejudice
If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Optimism, Positive Attitudes
I think that, for all of us, as we grow older, we must discipline ourselves to continue expanding, broadening, learning, keeping our minds active and open.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Discipline, Aging
If something doesn’t come up the way you want, you have to forge ahead.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Perseverance, Endurance, Resolve
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Pessimism, Cynicism
Go ahead, make my day.
—Clint Eastwood
Topics: Anger
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