"It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
Sir Edmund Hillary
Self-Mastery Quotes
34 FAMOUS QUOTES · SELF-MASTERY
Self-Mastery Quotes
Read 34 famous self-mastery quotes from great authors, with links to more quote topics.
"I do not wish them to have power over men; but over themselves."
Mary Wollstonecraft
"It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves."
Sir Edmund Hillary
"Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power."Lao Tzu
"I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul."
William Ernest Henley
"The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power."
Seneca
"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."Aristotle
"He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself."
Philip Massinger
"The first and best victory is to conquer self."Plato
"One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself."Leonardo da Vinci
“Oh, while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.”Walt Whitman
“The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.”Plato
“If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.”Napoleon Hill
“You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.”Leonardo da Vinci
“He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.”Lao Tzu
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”Epictetus
“When someone boasted that at the Pythian games he had vanquished men, Diogenes replied, "Nay, I defeat men, you defeat slaves."Diogenes
“Though one may conquer a thousand times a thousand men in battle, yet he indeed is the noblest victor who conquers himself.”Buddha
"He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty."Lao Tzu
"No man is free who is not master of himself."Epictetus
"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."Lao Tzu
“It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”
Edmund Hillary
“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.”
William Ernest Henley
“If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.”
Vinoba Bhave