Quotes About Self-mastery

When a person attempts to control someone else's life, it only reflects the lack of control they have on their own.

the one who has conquered himself is a far greater hero than he who has defeated a thousand times a thousand men." But

These words you want to remember: if you do not learn to control the power within you, it will consume more than just your enemy.

Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.

The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion.

In the achievement of greater performances, of beating formidable rivals, the athlete defeats fear and conquers himself.

If you don't master your time, it is of a much higher probability that you will become an unconscious slave to people who have mastered theirs.

Your temper is the one thing you can't get rid of by losing it!

You at this time can only be destroyed by yourselves, from within and not from without. You have reached the point where the victory is to be won from within and can only be lost from within.

sink through the floor. Sonia, too, strove to control

We call an individual disciplined when he is master of himself, and can, therefore, regulate his own conduct when it shall be necessary to follow some rule of life. Such

Don't let it rule you: it will ruin you...

Take advice, but not orders. Only give yourself orders. Abraham Lincoln once said, 'Since I will be no one's slave, I will be no one's master.'

We must understand that the highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline.

I think there's some connection between absolute discipline and absolute freedom.

Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either command them, or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

You have to master yourself first before you can have victory with others.

The safest principle through life, instead of reforming others, is to set about perfecting yourself.

Don't let others Puppet your thoughts and actions on life; because in the end of every day you are still the Puppeteer of your own life.