Charlotte Bronte Quotes

Through readiness and discipline, we are the masters of our fate.

We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.

Your most important asset is the conscious control of your own life.

Self control is about being in charge of the direction our lives are taking. Now for the paradox: We get control of our lives, ultimately, not by will power but by surrender.

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

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

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.

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

Mastering others is strength. Mastering yourself is true power.

He who is firm in will molds the world to himself.

Your hands, your eyes, your voice, your thoughts are your servants.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

You have two choices: to control your mind or to let your mind control you.

All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.

If you fail to control your own mind, you may be sure you will control nothing else.

This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed.

Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don’t kick you around.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.

We have power over nothing except our will.

Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.

He who is firm and resolute in will molds the world to himself.

My third maxim was to try always to conquer myself rather than fortune, and to change my desires rather than the order of the world, and generally to accustom myself to believing that there is nothing entirely in our power except our thoughts, so that after we have done our best regarding things external to us, everything in which we do not succeed is for us absolutely impossible.

He who is able to conquer others is powerful; he who is able to conquer himself is more powerful.

I trust that you will so live today as to realize that you are masters of your own destiny, masters of your fate; if there is anything you want in this world, it is for you to strike out with confidence and faith in self and reach for it.