Miguel de Cervantes Quotes

If you wish to succeed in managing and controlling others - learn to manage and control yourself.

You must manage yourself before you can lead someone else.

You cannot lead others until you have first learned to lead yourself.

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

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failure on being born the wrong way.

There is no liberty to men who know not how to govern themselves.

I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself.

Over the years, I discovered over and over again that once you lose control, you have a chance of getting good at it. And once you're controlling the work, it's not going to be very good, or it won't be as good as it should be.

Behind real freedom, there lies discipline.

Self-mastery and self-discipline are the foundation of good relationships with others.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

You can never control other people. You can only control yourself. I have definitely learned that.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Freedom comes with a lot of responsibility. When you are by yourself, you have to develop a third eye.

The ego is there, but I'm learning to channel it.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing things with logic. True power is restraint. If words control you that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass.

Learning how to contract your power and personality is of incredible importance.

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 very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

The discipline that is needed in our lives is the discipline that comes from within.

Only in the crucible of self-mastery can freedom be smelted

Self-government relies, in the end, on the governing of the self.

In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.