Quotes About Self-mastery

The most onerous slavery is to be a slave to oneself.

No other person can have power over you or your destiny unless you decide to let him or her have it.

I'll make my old clothes know who's master. I shall straightaway cashier the hunting-frock, and render my leather breeches incapable. My hair has been in training some time.

In our time the only restraint left is self-retraint.

Self-actualization, for a man, is self-mastery, the strength to govern his appetites and passions and not be governed by them.

We deal with our mind from morning till evening, and it can be our best friend or our worst enemy.

The master competes with no one so, no one can compete with her.

The self is a friend for him who masters himself by the Self; but for him who is not self-mastered, the self is the cruelest foe.

If our feelings control our actions, it is because we have abdicated our responsibility and empowered them to do so.

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself

President N. Eldon Tanner has said, "Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

To not say the unkind or critical thing, particularly when provoked and/or fatigued, is a supreme kind of self-mastery.

We are the instrument of our own performance

Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

Some people say that you have to like yourself before you can like others. I think that idea has merit, but if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the roots of good relationships with others.

being a puppet pulled by someone else's strings to high proactivity, the power to act according to your own values instead of being acted upon by other people and circumstances.

real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of others or by many of the circumstances and environmental influences that limit other people.

Real self-respect comes from dominion over self, from true independence.

if you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.

We're dealing with a very dramatic and very fundamental paradigm shift here. You may try to lubricate your social interactions with personality techniques and skills, but in the process, you may truncate the vital character base. You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victory precedes Public Victory. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

But we are responsible—"response-able"—to control our lives and to powerfully influence our circumstances by working on be, on what we are.