self-mastery

Example Sentences

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Devin’s bark is indicative of the endless hours working at self-mastery.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 3, 2023

Alvord was part of a group of researchers who found that, when children build resilience skills and develop a sense of self-mastery, it has a “cascading positive impact” on their academic motivation and study skills.

From Washington Post • Mar. 15, 2022

Researchers have found that toddlers who are read to become children who are "more likely to enjoy strong relationships, sharper focus, and greater emotional resilience and self-mastery."

From Salon • Mar. 13, 2021

For both men, expeditions are tests, as much internal as external, and they’re eager to see what can be found at the outer boundaries of their self-mastery.

From National Geographic • Dec. 24, 2020

Firm principle, hope and constancy, self-mastery, superiority to pleasure and pain,—all the elements of a noble courage are proper to the man of the Spirit.

From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by Findlay, G. G.