Quotes About Self-mastery

The noble person uses things; the lesser man is used by things.

It is a fact that the majority of a man's griefs comes about through lack of self-control.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.

If a man's thoughts are muddy, If he is reckless and full of deceit, How can he wear the yellow robe? Whoever is master of his own nature, Bright, clear and true, He may indeed wear the yellow robe.

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

In order to stop the world it is imperative for you to realise that you must stop indulging in your view of the world - only then will you be able to muster enough personal power to make the leap to freedom.

Show your thoughts who's boss.

One's own self conquered is better than all other people.

Unless a man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.

Who has a more fierce struggle than the person who strives to master himself? And this must be our occupation: to strive to master ourselves and daily to grow stronger and to advance from good to better. All

Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?

Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles

If thou canst not make thine own self what thou desireth, how shalt thou be able to fashion another to thine own liking. We are ready to see others made perfect, and yet we do not amend our own shortcomings.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is in self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, an instinct. They regard a difficult task as a privilege; it is to them a recreation to play with burdens that would crush all others.

Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of life-energy. I never paid such a price. On the contrary, I have thrived on my thoughts.

without control, my power, my strength, my feelings are a weakness.

Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings. —Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare, Act I, Scene III

Give me patience. Flash. Give me control. Flash.

Wicca puts the responsibility for running our lives back where it belongs – in our own hands.

Deserve it, then. Take the cold bath bravely. Enjoy what is and not pine for what is not. Take yourself in hand and master yourself. Make yourself do unpleasant things, so as to gain the upper hand of your soul. Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life.

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still