Quotes About Self-mastery

When you lose your temper, you lose yourself—on the mat as well as in life.

Thomas J. Watson, the former chairman of IBM, said, "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.

Don't follow your heart. Make your heart follow you. The things your heart desire are often the things you're better off without.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.

If we are going to be masters of our destiny, we must be masters of the ideas that influence that destiny.

There are so many people who do things to you, and you end up feeling hurt and insulted. In doing so, you merely let them drive you. You let them become your masters.

hate harms no one so much as the one who hates. Do not grant even the worst person such a victory over you.

You have control over only three things in your life—the thoughts you think, the images you visualize, and the actions you take (your behavior).

Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, he who conquers himself is the greatest warrior.

The first key to leadership is self-control.

Only when a person begins to experience a dimension beyond the physical within himself, then he can play with the physical world whichever way he wants, he can do the best that he can do in the outside world, but the interiority is undisturbed. If your body, if your mind, if your emotions, if your energies are not functioning the way you want them to, then this is the worst kind of slavery, because somebody else decides what should happen within you.

The greatest teacher in the world is you, yourself."

Only himself manacles man.

Man is always the master, even in his weaker and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master who misgoverns his household.

It is the religious sense – a "radical engagement of the self with life" – that alone enables us to fulfil the promise of the scripture that we might have life and might have it more abundantly. How sad it is that our quest for self-mastery and a widespread sense of emptiness and loss-of-meaning go hand-in-hand, yet we often fail to see the connection.

God has given me power over my food. I hold the power -- not the food. If I'm not supposed to eat it, I won't put it in my mouth.

En el libro La Enseñanza de Buda dice: "Aunque un hombre conquiste a miles de hombres en los campos de batalla, sólo aquel que se conquiste a sí mismo ganará su batalla".

You've got to learn in life, you've got to learn it quick and keep it for the rest of your life: pull your own strings, and have no puppetmaster – and – habits – are – puppetmasters.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

My happiness doesn't depend on somebody; it depends on me.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you,not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

It is not what happens to you but what happens in you, that counts.