Own Master Quotes
47 quotes by 46 authors
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While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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No kingdom can be secured otherwise than by arming the people. The possession of arms is the distinction between a freeman and a slave. He,…
— James Burgh
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We do not wish to abolish teaching and to make every man his own master, but if the curates will not teach the gospel, the…
— William Tyndale
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Deborah, Duchess of Devonshire recounts her decision to leave her husband after decades of struggle with his alcoholism. Several days later, he wrote to her:…
— Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
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From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines. Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute. Listening to others,…
— Walt Whitman
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Our bodies, speeches and minds need to be trained so that they will do anything we want. We can cry or laugh at once when…
— Ching Hai
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I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.
— Antonio Porchia
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Since God is silent, man is his own master; he must live in a disenchanted world, submit everything to criticism, and make his own way.
— Peter Gay
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Speak what I want, I don't care what y'all feel. 'Cause I'm my own master, my Pop told me be your own boss. Keep integrity…
— Nas
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Wretched men cringe before tyrants who have no power, the victims of their trivial hopes and fears. They do not realise that anger is hopeless,…
— Boethius
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Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.
— Anwar Sadat
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You are your own master, you make your own future. Therefore discipline yourself as a horse-dealer trains a thoroughbred
— Gautama Buddha
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An individual can be truly moral only when they are their own master. From the moment when they awaken to a comprehension of that which…
— Elisee Reclus
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To be one's own master is to be the slave of self.
— Natalie Clifford Barney
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The question isn't whether you have a good master or a bad master. It's to be your own master. That is the dignity of humanity.
— Alan Keyes
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Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it
— Elizabeth Keckley
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He is great enough that is his own master.
— Joseph Hall
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A Christian is not his own master, since all his time belongs to God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
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One of the most important but one of the most difficult things for a powerful mind is to be its own master.
— Joseph Addison
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Do not be irritated either with those who sin or those who offend; do not have a passion for noticing every sin in your neighbour,…
— John of Kronstadt
Who Wrote These Own Master Quotes
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