Masters Quotes · Page 75

By becoming self-aware, you gain ownership of reality; in becoming real, you become the master of both inner and outer life.

— Deepak Chopra

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming…

— Alan Cohen

One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.

— Joseph Addison

I am master of my own destiny, and I can make my life anything that I wish it to be.

— Roger McDonald

The nerve that never relaxes, the eye that never blanches, the thought that never wanders, the purpose that never wavers - these…

— Edmund Burke

So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.

— Will Durant

A Zen master, when asked where he would go after he died, replied, 'To Hell, for that's where help is needed most.'

— Philip Kapleau

And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art.

— John B. S. Haldane

For one who is a learner and who has not yet come to master their mind, but who dwells aspiring for peace…

— Gautama Buddha

Tell me something, Raphael?" He was already turning, heading to the door. "What is it you'd like to know, Guild Hunter?" She…

— Nalini Singh

Trust is a competency. It's something you can get good at. It's a strength you personally, and your team and your company…

— Stephen Covey

A disciple, in his reverence for the Master, looked upon him as God incarnate. "Tell me, O Master," he said, "why you…

— Anthony de Mello

There is only one thing which can master the perplexed stuff of epic material into unity; and that is, an ability to…

— Lascelles Abercrombie

The Master said, "To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying?…

— Confucius

You must master the habit of procrastination and eliminate it from your wake-up. This habit of putting off until tomorrow that which…

— Napoleon Hill

Have you seen some of the crap they're selling as exercise equipment now? How about that Suzanne Somers? She should have been…

— Jack LaLanne

A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master…

— Linda Sunshine

I think that's actually what's missing from government, for the most part. We've got a lot of policy people, but we have…

— Edward Snowden

The only master that exists, the only one that's true and believable is your own conscience. To find it you have to…

— Susanna Tamaro

I had a massive heart attack, and in my belief that I was close to dying, I took the opportunity to teach…

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

Often, we try to repair broken things in such a way as to conceal the repair and make it “good as new.”…

— Teresita Fernandez

No longer was she merely the dancing-girl who extorts a cry of lust and concupiscence from an old man by the lascivious…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Our entire being is fashioned as an instrument of praise. Just as a master violin maker designs an instrument to produce maximum…

— Lamar Boschman

As far as the targets hit by the Islamic attackers, I do not consider the WTC a U.S. institution, but the headquarters…

— Tom Metzger

The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.

— Odilon Redon

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

— Gary Gygax

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

— Arthur Scargill

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 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 Master would insist that the final barrier to our attaining God was the word and concept God.

— Anthony de Mello

Master the divine techniques of the Art of Peace and no enemy will dare to challenge you.

— Morihei Ueshiba

Locker rooms and grill rooms are still the best places to find out things you don't know - at the Masters or…

— Dan Jenkins

Heaven forming each on other to depend, A master, or a servant, or a friend, Bids each on other for assistance call,…

— Alexander Pope

The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

— Tara Brach

If you figure a way to live without serving a master, any master, then let the rest of us know, will you?…

— Paul Thomas Anderson

Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad…

— Okakura Kakuzo

The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself…

— Philip Guston