Self Mastery Quotes

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

A man likes to believe that he is the master of his soul. But as long as he is unable to control his moods and emotions, or to be conscious of the myriad secret ways in which unconscious factors insinuate themselves into his arrangements and decisions, he is certainly not his own master.

The man who does not wish to be one of the mass only needs to cease to be easy on himself.

Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary.

Neither in writing nor in reading wilt thou be able to lay down rules for others before thou shalt have first learned to obey rules thyself.

To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.

You cannot always control what goes on outside. But you can always control what goes on inside.

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.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

One of the most essential yet the hardest truths that I have had to learn is that every person should be his own hardest task-master.

The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends... then self mastery can be sought.

He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.

Great is the man who can overcome theworld, but greater still is the man who canovercome himself, for he will have the worldspinning on the palm of his hand.

He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

Conquering others requires force. Conquering oneself requires strength

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

The power to think as you wish to think is the only power over which you have absolute control.

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

All men would be masters of others, and no man is lord of himself.

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery is the hardest job you will ever tackle. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Well, one of the problems about being psychoanalyzed is, as Nietzsche said, "Be careful lest in casting out your devils that you cast out the best thing that's in you." So many people who are really in deep analysis look as though and act as though they have been filleted. There's no bone there, there's no stuff! How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

If you're always in a hurry, always trying to get ahead of the other guy, or someone else's performance is what motivates you, then that person is in control of you.

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

How to get rid of ego as dictator and turn it into messenger and servant and scout, to be in your service, is the trick.

Ask advice of him who governs himself well.

Your reputation is in the hands of others. That's what the reputation is. You can't control that. The only thing you can control is your character.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.

The only thing over which you have complete right of control at all times is your mental attitude.

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . .

He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories.

Giving style” to one’s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye.

There is no greater magnificence than to defeat oneself. That is the magnificence.

When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.

You will never have a greater or lesser dominion than that over yourself...the height of a man's success is gauged by his self-mastery; the depth of his failure by his self-abandonment. ...And this law is the expression of eternal justice. He who cannot establish dominion over himself will have no dominion over others.

From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others, and considering well what they say. Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating. Gently but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.

People aren't against you; they are for themselves. The most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. He who conquers others is strong, he who conquers himself is mighty.

A state of mind is something that one assumes. It cannot be purchased, it must be created.

Practice radical humility." He (or she)who masters the art of humility cannot be humiliated.

Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little.

We conquer ourselves by learning patience, for she gives to us our longed for victory only in the surrender of self.

The great master key to riches is nothing more or less than the self-discipline necessary to help you take full and complete possession of your own mind.

Each day look into your conscience and amend your faults; if you fail in this duty you will be untrue to the Knowledge and Reason that are within you. Keep a watchful eye over yourself as if you were your own enemy; for you cannot learn to govern yourself, unless you first learn to govern your own passions and obey the dictates of your conscience.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim.

First you get a habit, then it gets you.

Those who defeat others are strong, those who defeat themselves are mighty.

The brave man is not the one who has no fears, he is the one who triumphs over his fears.