self-mastery quotes

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

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

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No man is free who is not master of himself.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.