Quotes About Self-mastery

We are all masters of our own destinies.

He guided the passions of others, because he was master of his own.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

The power and intensity of your contractions cannot be stronger than you, because it is you.

Everyone will experience failure for something. But the worse failure is not being able to conquer yourself.

Nobody has the power to imprison your mind, dictate your emotions, or enslave your soul - unless you let them.

What you are aware of you are in control of; what you are not aware of is in control of you. You are always a slave to what you're not aware of. When you're aware of it, you're free from it. It's there, but you're not affected by it. You're not controlled by it; you're not enslaved by it. That's the difference.

was "to try always to master myself rather than fortune, and change my desires rather than the order of the world.

Everybody in my band is a lion, and everyone's mastered their own domain... And we have a platform, and we have built it painstakingly and punched ourselves in the face every way we could to get where we are.

You can control any situation if you first control yourself.

Tis a barbaric fancy, said Roxholm thoughtfully as he turned the stem of his glass, keeping his eyes fixed on it as though solving a problem for himself. A barbaric fancy that a woman needs a master. She who is strong enough is her own conqueror--as a man should be master of himself.

I'm angry. I just don't give in to it." He sipped his tea and then put it down. "Stuff happens all the time. What'd you call it? Outrageous. Outrageous stuff make you so mad you can just burn yourself up with it. You got to decide if the mad runs you, or you run the mad.

What was it St. Augustine said? The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

Most discipline is hidden discipline, designed not to liberate but to limit. Do not ask Why? Be cautious with How? Why? leads inexorably to paradox. How? traps you in a universe of cause and effect. Both deny the infinite.

Each of us is the enemy [...] to the other and to himself. That's what I mean: I'm the enemy within myself. Unless I master that enemy, I always lose.

He aspires to rule my Barony, yet he cannot rule himself.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance

It's my storm, Paul said [...] Though it shook the entire world it could not be more than I wished.

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance." Yes—I am meeting more resistance lately. I could use a quiet retreat by myself. A

Não terei medo. O medo mata a mente. O medo é a pequena morte que leva A aniquilação total. Enfrentarei meu medo. Permitirei que passe por cima e através de mim. E, quando tiver passado, voltarei o olho interior para ver se o rastro. Onde o medo não estiver mais, nada haverá. Somente eu restaurei.

La mente gobierna al cuerpo, y éste obedece. La mente se ordena a sí misma, y encuentra resistencia.

The animal twists the whip out of its master's grip and whips itself to become its own master—not knowing that this is only a fantasy, produced by a new knot in the master's whiplash.

To achieve self-mastery and insight requires a lifelong regimen of asking questions, thinking things through, liberating your mind, benefiting from the perspectives of other people, and caring for your soul.

I understand that trying and achieving are the same thing when you are your own master—and I am.