Quotes about Mastery

THERE is no bondage in the Heavenly Life. There is Perfect Freedom. This is its great glory. This Supreme Freedom is gained only by obedience. He who obeys the Highest co-operates with the Highest, and so masters every force within himself and every condition without. A man may choose the lower and neglect the Higher, but the Higher is never overcome by the lower: herein lies the revelation of Freedom.

cease to be a slave to self, and no man will have the power to enslave you. As

He only is fitted to command and control who has succeeded in commanding and controlling himself.

man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.

Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say

Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.

Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.

But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.

An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.

I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.

Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.

The man [Grant] who more than any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a nation whose citizens were all freemen, realized entirely that these freemen would remain free only while they kept mastery over their own evil passions.