Quotes About Self-mastery

A human being who has mastered the self cannot be dominated by any other person; to the contrary, there is a strong tendency for others to seek to emulate and follow such a master, because they intuitively recognize the value of self-control.

Breathing is one of the few involuntary actions of the body over which we can exercise voluntary control. That is to say, it is on the border-line between the regions of the conscious and the unconscious. The man or woman who can speak or be silent as he chooses is the individual who has self-control.

Bring us together. Instead of turning us into their puppets, they'll teach us how to tame our destructive impulses, the demons of our nature, as they learned to do.

If you are not taking responsibility for your state of consciousness, you are not taking responsibility for life.

Self conquest is the greatest of victories.

I think you can find yourself in life perhaps not really being the master of your own life and it is within your own will and tenacity whether you switch the roles or not.

One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.

Today I may way before an awestruck world; I am still master of my fate. I am still captain of my soul.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

To change, you must face the dragon of your appetites with another dragon: the life-energy of the soul.

Fortunately, how we choose to be today is not predetermined by how we were yesterday...You and you alone choose moment by moment who and how you want to be in the world. I encourage you to pay attention to what is going on in your brain. Own your power and show up for your life.

You never conquer a mountain. Mountains can't be conquered you conquer yourself--your hopes, your fears.

Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.

When I'm playing well because of my serve and trying to keep points shorter, I don't need to worry about my opponent. All I need to do is focus on myself and have them adjust to me rather than me adjust to them. That's when I play my best tennis.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.

Your greatest challenges are never about what other people do, but rather about how you respond. They are about whether you can accept, understand, and thus rise above the emotions that others' actions cause inside you. Spiritual growth is not about you changing the world; it is about going within and changing yourself.

In which case, he was basically saying: 'Look, if there is part of you that isn't under your control and therefore makes you suffer, then do yourself a favor and quit identifying with it.

At the moment of deciding not to argue further, he had given up all emotional investment in the situation. He had withdrawn his anma into himself as he had been taught to do, divesting it of his anger and offense as he did so. It was not that these emotions were unworthy or inappropriate; it was simply that they were wasted upon the man. He swept his mind clean of reactions to the filthy blanket. By the time he reached the foredeck, he had regained not just calmness, but wholeness.

Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves.

This gives rise to a new symptom, namely a dissociation, or rather the power of a momentary dissociation of three faculties which, in man, are united: the faculties of willing, feeling and thinking. We must learn to separate and to re-unite them at will. So long, for example, as some outer event carries us away with uncontrolled enthusiasm, we are immature, for such enthusiasm comes from the event, not from ourselves, and we may even exercise a shattering influence of which we are not master.