Quotes About Self-mastery

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

It is more difficult to rule yourself than to rule a city.

It's very difficult to regulate yourself, and if you learn to do that, well, it starts to spill over.

If we become aware of what's happening before we act, behaviour becomes a function of choice rather than a result of an impulse or trigger. You begin to control your world more as opposed to the outside world controlling you.

Self-control is true power.

There are people out there who want to provoke me and bring back the old Mary but I'm not giving them the satisfaction.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

we fight every battle with our imaginations: the battles within, the battles in the world beyond. This is the truth of command, and a warrior must learn command, of oneself and of others. It

Over the years, I've found that anger is necessary, but it must reach an equilibrium: You need just enough but never too much. If you don't let it in, you become hollow; but if you let it take over, you become its slave.

Discipline must come through liberty…. We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined. We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself.

This man has conquered the world! What have you done?" The philosopher replied without an instant's hesitation, "I have conquered the need to conquer the world.

Being unconquerable lies with yourself; being conquerable lies with your enemy.

I'm as much my own master as anyone can be, without being the master of others. I can write anywhere - all I need is a couple of hours of solitude and a computer, and I can write a chapter. Since my work is portable, I can live anywhere I like.

Lucid dreaming has considerable potential for promoting personal growth and self-development, enhancing self-confidence, improving mental and physical health, facilitating creative problem solving and helping you to progress on the path to self-mastery.

What someone else does or doesn't do has no effect on me and what I do.

Sl?biciunea noastr?, a modernilor, e c? în loc s? gândim, gândurile ne gândesc pe noi. Noi st?m molâi, femei adipoase, lubrice, nesatisf?cute, È™i gândurile ne violenteaz?, ne schingiuiesc, ne vând altora, iar noi nu protest?m, ci le l?s?m s? ne st?pâneasc?, s? ne îndrepte paÈ™ii, s? ne prostitueze oric?rui adev?r care le satisface pe ele, nu pe noi.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self

Turn on the full powers of your will and take complete control of your own mind. It is your own mind! It was given to you as a servant to carry out your desires. And no one may enter it or influence it in the slightest degree without your consent and cooperation. What a profound fact this is!

We are the masters of our fate, we are the captains of our soul, *because* we have the power to control our *thoughts*.

5. Lack of self-discipline. Discipline comes through self-control. This means that one must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. You may see at one and the same time both your best friend and your greatest enemy, by stepping in front of a mirror.

The only difference between them is that a man who sees controls his folly, while his fellow men can't.

A man who is defeated by power dies without really knowing how to handle it. Power is only a burden upon his fate. Such a man has no command over himself, and cannot tell when or how to use his power.

There's no room for demons when you're self-possessed.

Freedom is a practice and a habit. We have to train ourselves to walk as a free person, sit as a free person, and eat as a free person. We need to train ourselves how to live.