Quotes About Self-mastery

Nothing hurts me if I don't want it to," she told him.

Le tumulte et le désordre de notre esprit diminuent notre libre arbitre, le rendent esclave de nos émotions, c'est-à-dire des circonstances.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything except his own nature.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you. Never excuse yourself. Never pity yourself. Be a hard master to yourself - and be lenient to everybody else.

Tension can be useful, exciting, flirtatious, strength-building, or destructive. Put yourself in charge of how you direct it.

Maturation is fundamentally the process of learning to discipline one's self and to carry personal responsibility.

It wasn't exultation she felt, not the excitement of a first kill or even the satisfaction of overcoming a powerful beast. It was something deeper, more humbling. It was the knowledge that she had overcome herself.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.

It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change. Of course people mutilate and modify, but these are fallen powers, and to change something you do not understand is the true nature of evil.

Toute passion est bonne quand on en est maître, mais mauvaise quand on en est assujetti.

L'indépendance que je croyais avoir acquise était le seul sentiment qui m'affectait. Libre et maître de moi-même, je croyais pouvoir tout faire, atteindre à tout : je n'avais qu'à m'élancer pour m'élever et voler dans les airs.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself. Anger is.

Maybe. The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more.

The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself any-more. Anger is.

An interesting piece of work, freely chosen, which has the virtue of inducing concentration rather than fatigue, adds to the child's energies and mental capacities, and leads him to self-mastery.

One of the things I stress to those I meet, especially young people, is that we are the heroes of our own lives, and we can be the masters of our own stories.

To be a hero or a heroine, one must give an order to oneself.

In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

No one is free who does not lord over himself.

He who overcomes himself is divine. Most see their ruin before their eyes; but they go on into it.

The war we must must win is fought within.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life.