Mastery Quotes

410 quotes by 306 authors

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. — Leonardo da Vinci
Man's destiny was to conquer and rule the world, and this is what he's done.. almost. He hasn't quite made it, and it looks as… — Daniel Quinn
Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and… — Jorge Luis Borges
two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nihilism is a natural consequence of a culture (or civilization) ruled and regulated by categories that mask manipulation, mastery and domination of peoples and nature. — Cornel West
The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power… — David O. McKay
The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest. — Bruce Lee
Self-control is strength. Right thought is mastery. Calmness is power. — James Allen
It wasn't so long ago when all the so-called scientists said that humans were intelligent and that animals weren't, humans were the solitary unchallenged masters… — Robin McKinley
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities. — Alexandre Dumas
Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul. — Bruce Lee
I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
He walked on without resting. He had a terrible longing for some distraction, but he did not know what to do, what to attempt. A… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
The secret of joy is the mastery of pain. — Anais Nin
As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and… — Scott Hahn
The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires. — Pope John Paul II
I had always wanted to love Eve as Denny loved her, but I never had because I was afraid. She was my rain. She was… — Garth Stein
Mastery of language affords remarkable power. — Frantz Fanon
Civilization is the mastery of violence, the triumph, constantly challenged, over the aggressive nature of the primate. For primates we have been and primates we… — Muriel Barbery
A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day… — Annie Dillard

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