The most difficult master is the servant who became master.

In the master there is a servant, in the servant a master.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Be the master of your will but the servant of your conscience.

— Robin Sharma

The master sometimes serves, and the servant sometimes is master.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“reason tends to be the servant rather than the master of desire.”

— William B. Irvine

Velvet looks horrified. “If you are fool enough to address King R’jan, you will do it thus and in no other manner! ‘My King,…

— Karen Marie Moning

The future is simply a servant to those who decide to master it.

— Vikrant Parsai

It's very easy to learn. And very difficult to master.

— Sonny Terry

It's easy to listen to what you are taught. But it's difficult to find what you have within yourself and master it as yor…

— Gogen Yamaguchi

Golf is so difficult to master. It feels like the better you get, the farther you are away from perfection.

— Stewart Cink

In mathematics our role is more that of servant than master.

— Charles Hermite

If you do not look at things on a large scale, it will be difficult to master strategy.

— Miyamoto Musashi

Woman is the crown of all creation, but Man is the head who wears it, and even the servant is master in his house.

— Franz Grillparzer

...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

— Vincent de Paul

Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.

— Anonymous

I have thus decided to make a certain film and now begins the complicated and difficult-to-master work. To transfer rhythms, moods, atmosphere, tensions, sequences,…

— Ingmar Bergman