Masters Quotes · Page 40

My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

— Johann Sebastian Bach

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

— George Bernard Shaw

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

— Epictetus

Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

— Mignon McLaughlin

A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.

— Publilius Syrus

A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

— L. P. Jacks

All masters want to appear more brilliant than other people.

— Robert Greene

You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.

— Rhonda Byrne

Those who will not govern themselves are condemned to find masters to govern over them.

— Steven Pressfield

Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear,…

— Gorgias

If you just work on stuff that you like and you're passionate about, you don't have to have a master plan with…

— Mark Zuckerberg

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

— Jimmy Evans

You can now be a master of your own destiny. I'm not sure why you would sign up with a record label.

— Sean Parker

I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of…

— Alexander Stoddart

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

— Tony Judt

I've been in these tabloids for 14 years now, and at some point you just become a Zen master of it all

— Brad Pitt

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be…

— Milan Kundera

When a pure devotee or spiritual master speak, what he says should be accepted as having been directly spoken by the Supreme…

— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

The rest of the Third World people are seeing, that the country can make a real change. No changing or trading one…

— Huey Newton

Speed is not part of the true Way of strategy. Speed implies that things seem fast or slow, according to whether or…

— Miyamoto Musashi

Those who know others are intelligent Those who know themselves have insight. Those who master others have force Those who master themselves…

— Laozi

[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and]…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

I was born in Memphis. There was music all around me, really deep and special music. I heard all these great masters…

— Charles Lloyd

I soon realized that it is not enough for a master simply to analyse variations scrupulously just like an accountant. He must…

— Alexander Kotov

If an important decision is to be made, they [the Persians] discuss the question when they are drunk, and the following day…

— Herodotus

Brotherly love is not a tangible commodity. We cannot touch it or weigh it, smell it of taste it. Yet it is…

— Carl H. Claudy

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your mind. What do you need to…

— Louise Hay

Tell me," said the atheist , "Is there a God really?" Said the master, "If you want me to be perfectly honest…

— Anthony de Mello

If there is a god, he is not only a wizard at leaving clues behind. More than anything, he's a master of…

— Jostein Gaarder

See yourself being a master of gratitude in the future. Mentally picture how this will help you feel joy the moment you…

— Zelig Pliskin

The life of a chess master is much more difficult than that of an artist - much more depressing. An artist knows…

— Marcel Duchamp

Zen's greatest contribution is to give you an alternative to the serious man. The serious man has made the world, the serious…

— Rajneesh

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.

— Jose Ferrer

You have got to be the masters of your own financial future.

— Suze Orman

The man who masters his own soul will forever be called conqueror of conquerors.

— Plautus

I think it was the institution...I was trying to master it.

— E. Lockhart

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.

— John Lennon

The man who is master of his passions is Reason's slave.

— Cyril Connolly