Jane Porter Quotes

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.

Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm.

See, I have taken England with both my hands

Conquer your mind and conquer the world.

By understanding the nuances of the world around you and how to survive the temptations, you can rule anything. Even yourself

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself.

Alexander esteemed it more kingly to govern himself than to conquer his enemies.

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

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

The way to subject all things to thyself is to subject thyself to reason; thou shalt govern many, if reason govern thee. Wouldst thou be crowned the monarch of a little world? command thyself.

He that is master of himself will soon be master of others.

Even those who have the weakest souls could acquire absolute mastery over all their passions if we employed sufficient ingenuity in training and guiding them.

You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer.

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

No man is free who is not master of himself... Is freedom anything else than the power of living as we choose?

Ask counsel of him who rules himself well.

the world exercises dominion by force and Christ and Christians conquer by service.

To the fool-king belongs the world.

Self-command is the main elegance.

Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power.

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.

It is always more difficult to fight one's own failings than the power of an adversary.