Quotes on Self Mastery

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.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

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

It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. 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 ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.