Quotes About Self-mastery

We are not a victim of our emotions or thoughts. We can understand our triggers and use them as tools to help us respond more objectively.

I shush my mind, because your mind can ruin you if you let it. I

Not in the clamour of the crowded street, Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.

telling myself only hours ago that reason had to guide my actions, my decisions, if I was to keep control of myself?

que a gente carece de fingir às vezes que raiva tem, mas raiva mesma nunca se deve de tolerar de ter. Porque, quando se curte raiva de alguém, é a mesma coisa que se autorizar que essa própria pessoa passe durante o tempo governando a ideia e o sentir da gente; o que isso era falta de soberania, e farta bobice, e fato é.

Be harsh with yourself at times.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be self-sufficient.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

One who conquers himself is greater than another who conquers a thousand times a thousand on the battlefield.

Those who have conquered themselves...live in peace, alike in cold and heat, pleasure and pain, praise and blame...To such people a clod of dirt, a stone, and gold are the same...Because they are impartial, they rise to great heights.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

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.

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

Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock.

He who would be useful, strong, and happy must cease to be a passive receptacle for the negative, beggarly, and impure streams of thought; and as a wise householder commands his servants and invites his guests, so must he learn to command his desires and to say, with authority, what thoughts he shall admit into the mansion of his soul.

The greatest form of power is the power to control one's self not the power to control others.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control - these three alone lead to power

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.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself. The height of a mans success is gauged by his self-mastery: the depth of failure by his self-abandonment. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

Don't see others as doing better than you. Beat your own records daily. Because success is a fight between you and yourself.

You have sole custody of your life. Who you are today is not who you have to be tomorrow. Embrace the possibility of transformation.

Saber fer les coses que no es volen fer ajuda a fer bé les coses que es volen fer

If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.

Since I've started fighting it has taught me a lot about self respect, self confidence and self control.