#Self Mastery Quotes

“The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.”

“Your worst enemy is hiding within yourself, and that enemy is your nafs or false ego.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Being a leader is living life on your terms not getting followers”

“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.”

“Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life.”

“Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man's own will.”

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

“Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education].”

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

“Treasures and armies do not make a king. A true king is a king within himself.”

“A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure.”

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

“The first and the best victory is to conquer self.”

“All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.”

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

“Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.”

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

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

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

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

“Achieve self-mastery over your thoughts, and constantly direct them toward your goals and objectives. Learn to focus your attention on the goals that you want to achieve and on finding ways to achieve those goals.”

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

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

“Attend well to your character, and your reputation will look out for itself.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“First you get a habit, then it gets you.”

“Courage faces fear and thereby masters it.Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it.”

“I have only one counsel for you - be master.”

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

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

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

“If you neglect to exercise self-control, you are not only likely to injure others, but you are sure to injure yourself!”

“Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.”

“Mastering others is strength. Mastering oneself makes you fearless.”

“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.”

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

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”