Quotes About Self-mastery

Our minds are so undisciplined that our doubts rule our lives and we don't master our imagination - it masters us.

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

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them.

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

The greatest achievement is to outperform yourself.

A man may conquer a million men in battle but one who conquers himself is, indeed, the greatest of conquerors.

If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.

The only competition you will have is the competition between your disciplined and undisciplined mind.

I am the captain of my soul.

There is only one thing you should know. Conquer yourself.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

You have to become a master or mistress of your mind.

You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is my mechanism; I use it. My brain is my mechanism; I use it.

Once you dominate yourself through conciousness, the attachments disappear and you can genuinely achieve your dreams.

You have more power over your mind than you realize. The time to strengthen it is now.

He who rules his spirit, shall conquer himself.

We can never control The World, but from Ourselves we are the Master. Jan Jansen

If I accept the fact that my relationships are here to make me conscious, instead of happy, then my relationships become a wonderful self mastery tool that keeps realigning me with my higher purpose for living.

Power over others is weakness disguised as strength. True power is within (...)

If the master is not present in the house, all kinds of shady characters will take up residence there. When you inhabit your body, it will be hard for unwanted guests to enter.

Opposition of one's desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.

And mistress of herself, though china fall.

People forget that the greatest conqueror is he who conquers himself.