Quotes About Self-mastery

emotions can frequently hurt and cripple, until you begin to grasp that you are their source and thus their master.

MAN is a slave only to his own mental lethargy.

A good master leads you to the true master within. Only that master, who is your own higher self, can adequately answer all questions.

True freedom is impossible without a mind made free by discipline.

Self-mastery means turning the critical eye inward to yourself, rather than always identifying the faults of others. After you have accomplished this, you must refrain from blaming any creature; including yourself.

The mind is the master, at the same time it acts as the best slave that never rests or sleeps.

Those who seek materialistic things cannot go beyond themselves or master their thoughts. Monkey mind, jumping from tree to tree.

Although you may spend your life killing, you will not exhaust all your foes. But if you quell your own anger, your real enemy will be slain.

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Self-discipline is the ability to organize your behavior over time in the service of specific goals.

I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.

One should become the master of one's mind rather than let one's mind master him.

True independence means being free from the domination of your own internal automatic behaviors, not doing what you feel like when the urge strikes.

How do I change? If I feel depressed I will sing. If I feel sad I will laugh. If I feel ill I will double my labor. If I feel fear I will plunge ahead. If I feel inferior I will wear new garments. If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice. If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come. If I feel incompetent I will think of past success. If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals. Today I will be the master of my emotions.

For conduct which to clearer minds seems merely sane, was in those days to be performed only by rare vision and self-mastery.

I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

Once upon a time, Freedom and Necessity were identical; but now what is understood by freedom is in fact indiscipline.

Re: Positive reactions to non-positive events] Our feelings are the products of our thoughts. A positive thought produces a feeling of contentment or happiness, a negative one a feeling of sadness or despondency. If we have control over how we feel about it as well. This means, in turn, that we can be the makers of our own happiness ( p.16).

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

As the old saying goes, "The person who masters himself masters the world.

Each day is a tiny trial in which you have the opportunity to improve yourself,

Thinking and contents are to be left alone. The "I" is not to intervene as if it exercised mastery over these contents.

It's not that you should never love something so much that it can control you. It's that you need to love something that much so you can never be controlled. It's not a weakness. It's your best strength.

Self-control is a fruit of his work.