Masters Quotes · Page 11

The master action, to move forward is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.

— Anonymous

Quality rather than quantity distinguishes the master.

— Sax Rohmer

Shoes are the first adult machines we are given to master.

— Nicholson Baker

An unsurpassed master of the art of laying bare the inmost core of spiritual truth.

— Geza Vermes

Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing.

— William Shakespeare

A master of straw eates a servant of steele.

— George Herbert

Life is about survival of the fittest, and Jersey is producing the master race.

— Janet Evanovich

Shihonage is the foundation of Aikido. All you ever need to master is shihonage.

— Morihei Ueshiba

When you master role-playing [gaming], you become immersed in an activity that is peerless among leisure-time pursuits.

— Gary Gygax

In art, all who have done something other than their predecessors have merited the epithet of revolutionary; and it is they alone…

— Paul Gauguin

My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words

— Arthur Scargill

My mother was the concert master of the symphony. Absurdity and eccentricity were not criticized.

— Martin Short

Don’t miss what the Lord has in store for those who love Him and are willing to let Him be the Master…

— Billy Graham

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

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures. Some men are masters…

— Democritus

Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

— Elizabeth Keckley

Discipline in the spiritual life is the concentrated effort to create the space and time where God can become our master and…

— Henri Nouwen

Man's desire for the approval of his fellows is so strong, his dread of their censure so violent, that he himself has…

— W. Somerset Maugham

No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master, but each should rather so think and act as though given…

— Saint Basil

Funny thing about Bob Dylan, the newest Nobel laureate in literature: He's been a master of self-invention for more than 50 years,…

— Jay Michaelson

Feelings of worth come when a woman follows the example of the Master. Her sense of infinite worth comes from her own…

— Russell M. Nelson

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court…

— Walter Lippmann

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have…

— H. L. Mencken

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been…

— David Knopfler

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as…

— Henry David Thoreau

“The Swift pulled over right next to her Thar. The shining black of the Thar next to the fading red of the…

— Udayakumar D.S

I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess…

— Dumitru Tepeneag

Give yourself unto reading. The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He…

— Anonymous

Mann is widely recognized as a master of irony and ambiguity, yet it's remarkable how quickly people foreclose options he carefully leaves…

— Philip Kitcher

[Not parroting.] My old Master used to say, "It is all very good to teach the parrot to say, 'Lord, Lord, Lord'…

— Swami Vivekananda

There never was a strong character that was not made strong by discipline of the will; there never was a strong people…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Love is a strange master, and human nature is still stranger.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Master your strengths. Outsource your weaknesses.

— Ryan Kahn

Find me a servant who admires his Master and you will have found two good men.

— Lucullus

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

— Conrad Hall

You have a new media system and Donald Trump emerged as a new master of it.

— Van Jones

Only those with passion can become masters.

— Victor Niederhoffer

Loose and jocular, Stanley proved to be a master at relating to nightclub audiences

— Joel Selvin

First thing I do [in the morning] is thank the master. I thank God every day.

— Pharrell Williams