Master Quotes

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The only distinction between freedom and slavery consists in this: In the former state a man is governed by the laws to which he has… — Alexander Hamilton
The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Like art, like music, like so many other disciplines, prayer can only be appreciated when you actually spend time in it. Spending time with the… — Joni Eareckson Tada
You do not become a master musician by playing just as you please, by imagining that learning the scales is sheer legalism and bondage! No,… — Sinclair B. Ferguson
The ultimate promise of technology is to make us master of a world that we command by the push of a button. — Volker Grassmuck
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. — Christian Lous Lange
Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami
May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. — Seneca the Younger
The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master. — James A. Baldwin
To my mind by far the greatest danger in scholarship...is not that the individual may fail to master the thought of a school but that… — Geoffrey Sampson
Think of success as a game of chance in which you have control over the odds. As you begin to master concepts in personal achievement,… — Robert Foster Bennett
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and… — Oswald Chambers
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety… — Henry David Thoreau
A prince ought to have no other aim or thought, nor select anything else for his study, than war and its rules and discipline; for… — Niccolo Machiavelli
Golf is a game you can never get too good at. You can improve, but you can never get to where you master the game. — Gay Brewer
Always remember that however good you may be, the game is your master. — John Henry Taylor
Any person capable of angering you becomes your master. — Epictetus
We must speak to God as a friend speaks to his friend, servant to his master; now asking some favor, now acknowledging our faults, and… — Ignatius Loyola

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