Quotes About Self-mastery

But I have learned that self-mastery and the consistent care of one's mind, body and soul are essential to finding one's highest self and living the life of one's dreams.

When you control your thoughts, you control your mind. When you control your mind, you control your life. And once you reach the stage of being in total control of your life, you become the master of your destiny.

There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery.

nothing can defeat you unless you defeat yourself.

No hay errores en la vida, sólo lecciones. No existe una experiencia negativa, sino sólo oportunidades que hay que aprovechar para avanzar por el camino del autodominio. De la lucha surge la fuerza. Incluso el dolor puede ser muy buen maestro.»

truly enlightened people never seek to be like others. Rather, they seek to be superior to their former selves. Don't race against others. Race against yourself

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself

las personas realmente esclarecidas nunca buscan ser como otros, sino que persiguen ser superiores a su propio yo.

There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength.

Success on the outside means nothing unless you also have success within. There is a huge difference between well-being and being well-off. Self-mastery and the consistent care of one's mind, body and soul are essential to finding one's highest self and living the life of one's dreams. How can you care for others if you cannot even care for yourself? How can you do good if you don't even feel good? I can't love you if I cannot love myself.

There are no mistakes in life, Only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow learn, and advance along the way to self-mastery

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Uno non può possedere capacità più grande o più piccola della padronanza di se stesso.

Ah, my dear! Let this be a lesson to you never to lose your temper!

Learn to master yourself-to understand both your fears and your desires. That's the key to magic. Then, no one shall have any hold over you. Remember... the magic (sic)... is a living thing, joined to whomever it touches and changed by them as well... You must come to know everything-even your darkest corners. Especially those...Everything has its price.

The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.

To make the mind obey you is a spiritual discipline.

Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence.

Only through training will a person learn his own weaknesses... He who is aware of his weaknesses will remain master of himself in any situation.

This ability to conquer oneself is no doubt the most precious of all things sports bestows.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner.

Practise a thousand times, and it becomes difficult; a thousand thousand, and it becomes easy; a thousand thousand times a thousand thousand, and it is no longer Thou that doeth it, but It that doeth itself through thee.

If you have enemies, then your biggest enemy is yourself. Do you know that, Mma?