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“The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.”

People Self Nations Challenges Development Exciting Mastery Integration Self Development Self Mastery American Society

Book:Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

Source: Color blind: a white woman looks at the Negro

“All who become men of power reach their estate by the same self-mastery, the same self-adjustment to circumstances, the same voluntary exercise and discipline of their faculties, and the same working of their life up to and into their high ideals of life.”

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Book:PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

Source: PLAIN TALKS ON FAMILIAR SUBJECTS

“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.”

Way Want Self Goal Attention Focus Achieve Findings Direct Objectives Over You Mastery Self Mastery Goals And Objectives

Author:Napoleon Hill

“A strong life force can be seen in physical vitality, courage, competent judgment, self-mastery, sexual vigor, and the realization of each person's unique talents and purpose in life. To maintain a powerful life force, forget yourself, forget about living and dying, and bring your full attention into this moment.”

“You can't have the fruits without the roots. It's the principle of sequencing: Private Victories proceed Public Victories. Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.”

Self Principles Victory Discipline Roots Foundation Fruit Mastery Self Discipline Self Mastery Good Relationship Relationships With Others Sequencing

Author:Stephen Covey

“Love is not about others; love is a practice of self-mastery.”

Love Self Love Is Practice Mastery Self Mastery

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.”

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Author:Robert Greene

“The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.”

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Book:Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten

Source: Megatrends Two Thousand and Ten

“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.”

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Book:Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

Source: Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu

“Self-mastery calls for thorough familiarity with one's mental and emotional strengths. And it calls for sustaining a commitment to personal growth - the understanding of what makes you tick as an individual - as well as personal development.”

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Author:Charles Garfield

“The greatest achievement is selflessness. The greatest worth is self-mastery. The greatest quality is seeking to serve others. The greatest precept is continual awareness. The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything. The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways. The greatest magic is transmuting the passions. The greatest generosity is non-attachment. The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind. The greatest patience is humility. The greatest effort is not concerned with results. The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go. The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.”

“The most fully actualized people that I studied over ten years consistently pushed the envelope. These people consistently demanded far more of themselves every day than anyone else ever expected from them. These people raised their standards and committed themselves from their hearts to be the best they could be and to live a life of uncommon wonder. This is what self-mastery is all about.”

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Author:Robin Sharma

“The greatest effort is not concerned with results.”

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Author:Atisa

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

Ifs Faith Achieve Stronger Mastery Self Mastery

Author:John Paul Jones

“Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.”

“I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

“If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.”

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”

“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person.”

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Book:Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

Source: Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

“Not being able to govern events, I govern myself.”

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Book:Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

Source: Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays

“The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.”

Self Nature Environmental Substitutes Mastery Adequate Stewardship Self Mastery

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”

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Author:George A. Sheehan

“The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.”

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Author:Alfred Lord Tennyson

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

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Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

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

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Book:As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman

Source: As You Think - A New Thought Classic for Today's Woman

“The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive person.”

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Book:The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.”

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Author:Pope John Paul II

“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.”

People Men Want Years Ends Use Enjoy Pleasure Emotion Masters Sorrow Mercy Shallow Self Mastery

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

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

Men Ends Pleasure Masters Sorrow Self Awareness Self Mastery Feeling Sad

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“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.”

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Author:Leonardo da Vinci

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

Source: Tao teh king

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

“Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own.”

“Rule your mind or it will rule you.”

“The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct.”

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Book:The Antichrist

Source: The Antichrist

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

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Book:America and the World War

Source: America and the World War

“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.”

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Book:The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind

Source: The Life Triumphant: Mastering the Heart and Mind

“Being human, we would expel from our lives physical pain and mental anguish and assure ourselves of continual ease and comfort, but if we were to close the doors upon sorrow and distress, we might be excluding our greatest friends and benefactors. Suffering can make saints of people as they learn patience, long-suffering, and self-mastery.”

“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”

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Author:Bruce Lee

“A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve.”

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Book:Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.”