Quotes About Self-mastery

You become greater than what you conquer within.

For the day we accept that we have chosen to choose our choices is the day we cast off the shackles of victimhood and are set free to pursue the lives we were born to live. Learn to master the moment of decision and you will live a life uncommon.

We can move gradually from total confusion, dominated by hatred and other mental poisons, to an intermediate stage of serenity, altruistic joy, and self-mastery before finally arriving at enlightenment, which will give us a true vision of phenomena's ultimate nature. At that point, knowledge functions with an immediate certitude that transcends discursive thought.

Few of us would regret the years it takes to complete an education or master a crucial skill. So why complain about the perseverance needed to become a well-balanced and truly compassionate human being?

We subdue that in others which we have learned to subdue in ourselves. Around the upright man there is drawn a wide circle of peace, within which the arrows of evil soon cease to fall; nor have his fellows the power to inflict moral suffering upon him.

But what we are, we are, on account of our own diligence or negligence, and what we shall be in the future depends upon what we will to be and not upon Divine caprice or upon inexorable fate. No matter what the circumstances, it lies with us to master them, or to be mastered, as we will.

He sees us not as pathetic victims of life, but masters of the art of living; not wanting sympathy, but imparting help to others

You cannot lead others, if you cannot lead yourself. Know yourself and develop self discipline first, the rest is easy

Men need discipline! Countries need discipline! World needs discipline! He who wants to be successful needs discipline! Be a man of discipline!

To discipline your body, you need a disciplined mind!

He does not rule us. No one can rule us. No one can rule anyone who does not first agree to the ruling." She smiled a trace at Aeriel and patted the little camp dog, which was whining for more tidbits. "One must rule oneself.

In this world are many people who do not master their bodies. Such people say that no one can tell them what to do, not even God, and they think that in this way they have no master. In the end they become slaves to anything.

Mastering others is force. Mastering yourself is true power.

Karate has helped me to control my temper, but my tongue still needs a handbrake or a dead man's switch.

Not being able to govern events, I govern myself, and apply myself to them, if they will not apply themselves to me.

A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.

He… got the better of himself, and that's the best kind of victory one can wish for.

It's exhilarating to come closer and closer to self-discipline. You make your body go and everything hurts; then you look back in awe at the self, at what you've done, it just blows your mind. It leads to ecstasy, to self-fulfillment. If you win these battles enough, that battle against yourself, at least for a moment, it becomes easier to win the battles in the world.

Changing external conditions might seem to work at first, but if a person is not in control of his consciousness, the old fears or desires will soon return, reviving previous anxieties. One

People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives

If you win these battles enough, that battle against yourself, at least for a moment, it becomes easier to win the battles in the world.

The important thing is that the energy is under their own control

you don't conquer anything except things in yourself…. The act of writing justifies poetry.

It is a circuitous path that begins with achieving control over the contents of our consciousness.