Quotes About Self-mastery

Where does the good lie? 'In the will.' And evil? 'Also in the will.' And things neither good nor bad – '… lie in whatever is external to the will.

An ignorant person is one who is tossed about between elation and despair by external forces and events.

O senhor de si mesmo é aquele que possui o poder de conservar ou repelir as coisas desejadas ou não desejadas.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend its increase.

distinguish between your own and not your own, the things which are in your power and not in your power

If you wish to be free, do not desire anything that depends on another, lest you make them your master.

Our master is anyone who has the power to implement or prevent the things that we want or don't want. Whoever wants to be free, therefore, should wish for nothing or avoid nothing that is up to other people.

Whoever then would be free, let him wish for nothing, let him decline nothing, which depends on others; else he must necessarily be a slave.

no man is free until he s a master of himself!!

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

Man proposes and dispose. He and he alone can determine whether he is completely master of himself, that is, whether he maintains the body of his desires, daily more formidable, in a state of anarchy.

Mandela said once in an interview: No matter where you are in life, there is always more journey ahead. And I think of one of Mandela's favorite quotes, from the poem Invictus, which sustained him during those moments when he thought his journey had been cut short: I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he justly entitled.

Every man must decide for himself whether he shall master his world or be mastered by it.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

The only person who can stop Diego Sanchez is Diego Sanchez.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

In the realm of power, you must ask yourself, what is the point of chasing here and there, trying to solve problems and defeat my enemies, if I never feel in control?

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. —LEONARDO DA VINCI

Daily Law: Rationality is something to be acquired by individuals, not by mass movements or technological progress. Feeling superior and beyond it is a sure sign that the irrational is at work. The Laws of Human Nature, 1: Master Your Emotional Self—The Law of Irrationality

Let us call this sensation mastery—the feeling that we have a greater command of reality, other people, and ourselves. Although it might be something we experience for only a short while, for others—Masters of their field—it becomes their way of life, their way of seeing the world.

What makes your mind stronger, and more able to control your emotions, is internal discipline and toughness.