Quotes About Self-mastery

En este mundo no harás nada que valga la pena si no empiezas por desarrollarte y transformarte a ti mismo. ESTRATEGIAS

human tongue is a beast that few can master. It strains constantly to break out of its cage, and if it is not tamed, it will run

Personal authenticity, in the classical understanding of liberal-arts education, consists in self-mastery—in placing reason in control of desire. According to the classic liberal-arts ideal, learning promises liberation, but it is not liberation from demanding moral ideals and social norms, or liberation to act on our desires—it is, rather, liberation from slavery to those desires, from slavery to self.

The freedom we must defend is freedom for the practice of these virtues. It is freedom for excellence, the freedom that enables us to master ourselves. It is a freedom that, far from being negated by rigorous standards of scholarship, demands them. It is not the freedom of "if it feels good, do it"; it is, rather, the freedom of self-transcendence, the freedom from slavery to self.

Dunia mempermainkan orang, bukan karena orang lain adalah pengganggu, tapi karena individu tersebut kurang memiliki kendali dan disiplin mental.

All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn't into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself.

I didn't like having my inhibitions lowered. If i was going to cut loose, i wanted to be in control of just how loose i got.

A quick mind is worthless unless you can control the emotions with it as well.

I need no distraction, Russell," he said curtly. "I believe I have already told you that a mind which cannot control its body's emotional reactions is no mind worth having.

The conquering of self is truly greater than were one to conquer many worlds.

Inner liberty depends upon being exempt from domination of things as well as from domination of people. There are many who have acquired a high degree of political and social liberty, but only very few are not enslaved to things.

no man is free who is not a master of himself, that the more liberties we enjoy, the more discipline we need.46 Laissez-faire

It is no use being your own master unless you can stand up for yourself.

self-mastery is the goal of life, and controlling, bullying, or needing to fix others is a distraction from our true purpose.

My third maxim was to try always to master myself rather than fortune and change my desires rather than changing how things stand in the world.

I undertook to conquer myself rather than fortune , and to alter my desires rather than change the order of the world , and to accustom myself to believe that nothing is entirely in our power except our own thoughts .

Arjuna, your mind is your friend and your enemy. If you control the mind, it is your friend. If your mind controls you, it is your enemy.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, verses 5 and 6 (paraphrased).

Arjuna, your mind is your friend and your enemy. If you control the mind, it is your friend. If your mind controls you, it is your enemy.—Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 6, verses 5 and 6

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer.Lack of desire is poverty.

Znam da bez pobede nad sobom ne možemo posti?i nijednu trajnu pobedu nad drugim. Ali, tako?e znam, ta?nije, ose?am, slutim, da ?ovek ne sme da pobedi sebe ni u ime najve?e pobede. Ni za kakvo zemaljsko carstvo. Mudar borac bi verovatno bio onaj koji vodi ra?una da ni za jednu stvar na svetu ne izgubi sebi više no što od te stvari može da dobije.

When the voice and the vision on the inside is more profound, and more clear and loud than all opinions on the outside, you've begun to master your life.

Let no one be like another, yet everyone like the highest. How is this done? Be each one perfect in himself.

In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.

Be superior to pleasure.