Quotes About Self-mastery

With total discipline we can solve all problems.

Without discipline we can solve nothing. With only some discipline we can solve only some problems. With total discipline we can solve all problems.

I am the chief steward of my fate, I am the fireman of my soul.

He who conquers self conquers all.

You don't have to fight with anybody else than you yourself to become a WINNER. The day you win over yourself, your success journey starts from then!!!

We all possess a hidden power to control our destiny. Attitude and determination are the keys we must use to unleash it.

Get out of your own way... What we call 'lack of willpower' is actually just losing an argument with an outdated version of yourself.

Get your ego in check and half your battles in life will disappear.

What you conquer within you conquer without.

To take control of your life ... just let go!

The sense in which Goethe was right: Continued life means expectation, Death is the abolition of choice. The more choice is limited, the closer we are to death. The greatest cruelty is to curtail expectations without taking away life completely. A life term in prison is like that. So is citizenship in some countries. The best solution would be to live as if the ordinary expectations had not been removed, not from day to day, blindly. But that requires immense self-mastery.

What is the best government? — That which teaches us to govern ourselves.

Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain." —Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Spanish neuroanatomist and Nobel Laureate

You must learn to control your impulses,' he said. 'A sword wants to be used. It wants to draw blood. That is why it was forged, and it has no other purpose in the world. If you do not control it, then it will control you.

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

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self respect. self reliance. self control.

When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals.

Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.

Ride upon your anger, never let anger, ride upon your senses.

Patience means self-mastery: the capacity to hold on and remain loving in a difficult situation when every atom of your being wants to turn and run. ? Perversely, the more we try to run from occasions that might cause us grief, the more we add to our burden of it.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you.

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.