Quotes About Self-mastery

He is great enough that is his own master.

Mastery passes often for egotism.

To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.

Being able to control your mind is a beautiful thing.

his new place would have to be clean and orderly, to signify self-mastery.

la Regla recordaba que nadie debía conquistar un reino si antes no conquistaba su propia alma. Teóricamente, cada templario debía antes conquistar su alma para Dios. La estancia en la Orden suponía una guerra personal contra el mundo, el demonio y la carne. Sólo hombres con paz en su alma podían ser guerreros. Si las pasiones habitaban en nuestros corazones, iríamos a la guerra acompañados de nuestras pasiones.

Man should not submit to the powers from outside but command them. How to do it is the problem.

Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

You just have to take control of your own performance.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

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.

There is no evidence of a man's ability to lead others as evidence for what he does diligently from day to day to lead himself.

The person who is his own master cannot tolerate another boss. It's better to be without a book than to believe a book entirely. When economy goes south, people get political.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I am kind of a cold guy and I don't suffer much because of the past.

If one can control one's mind, the body follows suit.

Nothing external to you has any power over you.

In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

No longer do we look outside of ourselves for solutions. We have seen where the path lies. All we require are the skillful means that will help us walk it.

We fight many battles, but probably the greatest battle we fight is the one with ourselves.

Ralph Waldo Emerson said it this way: "Nothing external to you has any power over you."1

One may conquer millions in battle, but he who conquers himself, only one, is the greatest of conquerors.

A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment.

Sin obsesionarnos por ello, la búsqueda de la excelencia (superación no egocéntrica) y el perfeccionamiento (mejoramiento continuo) definen el arte de vivir.