Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

You have to build systems to protect against your lesser self.

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

The preacher's sharpest and strongest preaching should be to himself. His most difficult, delicate, laborious, and thorough work must be with himself.

The ego is kind of a big, unwieldy thing. It's not so easily tamed or subdued.

Observe all men, thyself most.

Who has a harder fight than he who is striving to overcome himself.

If you're not perfectly conscious of yourself, that self can be tyrannical; in relationship to others, anyone can become a tyrant. That's why no one can be a Superman. You have to go beyond yourself with a 'third eye' - self-awareness - because the one thing you cannot flee is yourself.

Sometimes I think I'm a bit impatient, and a bit more patience would help me in some cases.

Discipline yourself. Be conscious of what you think, and what you like. What gets you mad? What gets you in your feelings? Figure that stuff out and take control of it so nobody else can control you.

The hardest victory is the victory over self.

For self is the lord of self, self is the refuge of self; therefore curb thyself as the merchant curbs a good horse.

When you feel the desire for power, you should stay in solitude for some time

Examine from time to time what are the dominant passions of your soul, and having ascertained this, mold your life, so that in thought, word, and deed you may as far as possible counteract them.

Self-control is the only possible road to character development

Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery

If you first gain power to check your words, you will then begin to have power to check your judgment, and at length actually gain power to check your thoughts and reflections.

It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves.

Emotional self-control is the result of hard work, not an inherent skill.

In the matter of learning, the difference between the earnest and the careless student stands out clearly. The same holds true in the mastering of passion and the weaknesses to which our nature is subject, as in the acquiring of virtue.

It is much easier to find fault with others, than to be faultless ourselves.

My ego every day is more and more polite. I tame it.

The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure use you. If you do that, you're in control of your life. If you don't, life controls you.

Most of us actually stifle enough good impulses during the course of a day to change the current of our lives.

Well, any time you do anything good, it's man versus himself, right? That's the art, the challenge.