Quotes about Mastery
man is the master of thought, the moulder of character, and the maker and shaper of condition, environment, and destiny.
— James Allen
Self-control is strength; Right Thought is mastery; Calmness is power. Say
— James Allen
Success is not a matter of mastering subtle, sophisticated theory but rather of embracing common sense with uncommon levels of discipline and persistence.
— Patrick Lencioni
Geniuses' steps take you higher than talent's leaps.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
But man as a person, the same man, gains mastery over egocentric self-confinement by disclosing a universe in himself...Personality is a universe, it is filled with universal content.
— Nikolai Berdyaev
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
— Mark Driscoll
I do not believe there ever was a man who was his own master, but that every man has a master of some kind or other.
— Charles Spurgeon
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
— Epictetus
The man [Grant] who more than any other, save Lincoln, had changed us into a nation whose citizens were all freemen, realized entirely that these freemen would remain free only while they kept mastery over their own evil passions.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?
— Thomas a Kempis
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
— Lao Tzu
To be master of any branch of knowledge, you must master those which lie next to it; and thus to know anything you must know all.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.