Quotes About Self-mastery

Make yourself do unpleasant things so as to gain the upper hand of your soul.

The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.

The great thing about chess is it's a game for oneself. You don't work on what you can't control, you just work on yourself. And I think if more people did that, we'd all be a lot better off.

Yaln?zca s?? kiÅŸiler bir duygudan kurtulmak için y?llar?n geçmesini beklerler. Kendinin efendisi olan bir insan, nas?l kolayca bir zevk icat edebilirse, ac?s?n? da ayn? kolayl?kla sona erdirebilir.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don't kick you around.

by self-mastery in meditation, the attention is focused steadily on the center of divine perception at the point between the eyebrows, the searchlights of life force and consciousness are reversed. Withdrawing from the senses, they reveal the light of the spiritual eye….Through this eye of omnipresence the devotee enters into the realms of divine consciousness.

You may control a mad elephant; You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger; Ride the lion and play with the cobra; By alchemy you may earn your livelihood; You may wander through the universe incognito; Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful; You may walk on water and live in fire: But control of the mind is better and more difficult. In

When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny.

No man who is resolved to make the most of himself,' said Lincoln, 'can spare time for personal contention.

Pero se necesita carácter y dominio de sí mismo para ser comprensivo y capaz de perdonar.

Disciplines are activities that are in our power and that enable us to do what we cannot do by direct effort.

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.

The human spirit craves for mastery over its carnal shell.

Make peace within, and there will be no one who can overcome you. And no one you will wish to overcome.

Valójában, Szókratész, nincs ellenséged, csak te magad. Békélj meg magaddal, és nem lesz senki, aki legyÅ'zhet. És senki, akit te kívánnál legyÅ'zni.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Control your anger. If you have anger towards others, they control you.

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

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.

Don't lose your temper; use it.

The man who does not wish to be merely one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

niente vale quanto essere il padrone di te stesso.

But here we may well ask what we are living for - if we are living to give up to the influence of environment, visible or invisible, or if we are living to attain such full control over the powers and talents that are within us, that we can not only control, modify and perfect environment, but also so perfectly control ourselves that we can become all that nature intends that we should become.