Quotes About Self-mastery

I'm learning to master self while rising from the ashes of madness.

Man's mastery over nature, then, is a mastery which has less and less control over itself. . . . A world where techniques are paramount is a world given over to desire and fear; because every technique is there to serve some desire or fear.2 —Gabriel Marcel

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

The greatest warrior is not he who conquers his enemies, but he who conquers himself.

The toughest competition you can ever face is between you and your emotion.would you get the best of it or let it get the best of you

You have the ability to drive your brain and the capability to nab the steering wheel back any time you feel yourself veering off the road you intended to take.

You have the power to mold your life how ever you want. To shape it and reshape it.

Anxiety does not exist to control you. You exist to control it.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider's job is to serve the elephant.

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

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Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Indeed, the whole question of fear is beyond analysis, and there is only one rule, which is, that a man must try to be so much the master of himself that he shall be able to compel himself to do whatever is needful, fear or no fear.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

If you were a servant would you not be ashamed that a good master should catch you idle? Then if you are your own master be ashamed to catch yourself idle.

themselves and their own

Greater in combat Than a person who conquers A thousand times a thousand people Is the person who conquers herself.

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.

He is most powerful who has power over himself

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power

Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.