Quotes About Self-mastery

Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.

In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom.

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

The mind has greater power over the emotions, and is less subject thereto, insofar as it understands all things to be necessary.

When you REACT you are giving away your power. When you RESPOND you are staying in control of yourself.

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

we must take care to be "the user, but not the slave, of the gifts of Fortune.

Always to seek to conquer myself rather than fortune, to change my desires rather than the established order, and generally to believe that nothing except our thoughts is wholly under our control, so that after we have done our best in external matters, what remains to be done is absolutely impossible, at least as far as we are concerned.

Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.

the true competition is the competition of the individual with himself—his present seeking to excel his past.

The most important investment ability of all is emotional discipline.

The struggle against the weakness in yourself is never a solitary struggle. No person can achieve self-mastery or his or her own.

Don't work for your mind, make your mind work for you.

God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

I only have control over one person and that's myself. And I feel good about it.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

What government is the best? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Ger., Welche Regierung die beste sei? Diejenige die uns lehrt uns selbst zu regieren.]

Would you have a great empire? Rule over yourself.

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves well enough that you don't have anything to prove.

Happiness and unhappiness are in the heart and spirit of each one of us: If you feel unhappy, then place yourself above that and act so that your happiness does not get to be dependent on anything.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

I am very happyBecause I have conquered myselfAnd not the world.I am very happyBecause I have loved the worldAnd not myself.

The best martial artist doesn't win fights, but avoids fights. Martial arts is a way of gaining basic self-mastery of your mind, body and emotions. It can also be very useful in combat situations.

Organizing your emotions reclaims your power over any given drama. Nothing is stronger than your own mind.