198 Quotes About Self-mastery

In ordinary terms, a “habit” is generally defined as a behavior that’s recurrent, is cued by a specific context, often happens without much awareness or conscious intent, and is acquired through frequent repetition.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

Success is a process, not an event.

Nobody else can make you feel a certain way, they can’t force-feed you an emotion to feel. They can do things and say things to you, but how you feel in response isn’t their fault and isn’t down to their control: your emotions are entirely under your influence due to the thoughts you do and do not validate.

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more.

Life is fleeting; we must master it in the present.

Attention is your precious treasure; always choose which thoughts to give it to.

Knowing who you are and taking this knowingness into a relationship with another requires two different levels of understanding. You can’t go into a relationship a half and expect the other person to make you whole. It is important that you master yourself before you try mastery with another.

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.