Quotes About Self-mastery

The greatest freedom comes from the greatest strictness.'(Paul Valéry)

If we are not in control of ourselves but instead let our impatience or anger interfere, then our work is no longer of any value.

A smile can relax hundreds of muscles in your face, and relax your nervous system. A smile makes you master of yourself.

The Buddha teaches us that we have to master ourselves first. Before we can act, we have to cool these coals beneath us. To succeed doesn't mean triumphing over the one who causes us to suffer, but over our own ignorance and resentment. No matter what has been done to us or how we've been wronged, we're always responsible for at least fifty percent of our suffering, perhaps more.

A smile makes you a master of yourself.

The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves.

The most critical, defining battles we wage in life, we wage alone. Against ourselves. It

You are not responsible for all the things that happen to you, but you are completely in control of your attitude and your reactions to them. If you feel annoyance, fear, or disappointment, these feelings are cause by you and must be dug out like a weed. Study where they came from, accept them, and then let them go. If you let outside pressures determine how you feel and what you do, you have just abdicated your job as CEO of your own life.

The Work is about making personality passive, a servant rather than a master.

You have dogs within you, you must become their master. If you find the animal that is within you, you can understand it. It is not a matter of scolding the animal, it is part of you. You must get to know its nature: it barks, it attacks; but if you understand it, and love it, it will be pleased to serve you, it will not have to be on the defensive, because it will feel loved, understood and it will love you.

Ci vuole disciplina per essere uno spirito libero

The ability to control oneself to determine one's actions is a pretty powerful idea. Base it on training and it's called discipline. But do it because you simply can, that's raw power. The power of will.

When you let anger get the best of you, it brings out the worst in you. The key question is who is in control—you or your emotions? Remember, before you can control your performance you need to be in control of yourself.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer yourself than others. When you've trained yourself, living in constant self-control, neither a deva nor gandhabba, nor a Mara banded with Brahmas, could turn that triumph back into defeat.

In the powerful words of the poem "Invictus," I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.

physical or anything else, it'll spread over into the rest of your life.

Having one's own will. — What does self-willed mean? Hell, isn't it knowing above all, that, indeed, one is the captain of one's soul, the master of one's life? Now what causes such realization and, consequently, brings about a change in one's behavior? TO BE REAL, TO ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONESELF.

The master of any craft is first a master of self, cooperating with innate intelligence within.

The greatest victory is not that which is won on the battlefield, but that which is won over oneself.

To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others.

You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

You have to be willing to go to war with yourself and create a whole new identity.