Quote by André Breton

Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes that he…

— James Allen

“Life here is probationary. It is man’s duty to become the master, not the slave of nature. His appetites are to be controlled and…

— David O. McKay

“Man is always the master, even in his weakest and most abandoned state; but in his weakness and degradation he is the foolish master…

— James Allen

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

— Jose Ferrer

It is not good for man to cherish a solitary ambition. Unless there be those around him, by whose example he may regulate himself,…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Man is the sole and absolute master of his own fate forever. What he has sown in the times of his ignorance, he must…

— Paul Bragg

“Man’s life is a line that nature commands him to describe upon the surface of the earth, without his ever being able to swerve…

— Baron d'Holbach

“When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master.”

— Anonymous

“A man is never an individual unless he is possessed by a desire so deep that it is deeper than life, so deep that…

— Osho

Man is man, and master of his fate.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave.

— Swami Vivekananda

“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which…

— James Allen