Quotes About Mastery

Man is more powerful than matter.

No man is free who cannot control himself.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.

As a hawk flieth not high with one wing, even so a man reacheth not to excellence with one tongue.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

The knowledge of God, the formation of ideas, the mastery of desire and passion, the distinction between that which is to be chosen and that which is to be rejected, all these man owes to his form.

Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man.

A successful surgeon should be a man who, when asked to name the three best surgeons in the world, would have difficulty deciding on the other two.

The basis of the Juche Idea is that man is the master of all things and the decisive factor in everything.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

A learned man's knowledge will be of no avail to him if he doesn't have control over his tongue

It is no use asking me or anyone else how to dig... Better to go and watch a man digging, and then take a spade and try to do it.

A field of clay touched by the genius of man becomes a castle.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

Man who man would be, must rule the empire of himself.

A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave.

How can you call a man free when his pleasures rule over him.

If Beethoven is a prodigy of man, Bach is a miracle of God.

The progressive development of man [has as its] ultimate purpose the complete mastery of mind over the material world.

A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.

Give a man a soccer ball, he plays for a moment. Teach a man to play soccer, he plays for a life time.

I am a man who likes to control things, and if I can't control them totally I will not control them at all.

I have always felt and said that a man who can be a champion in one era could be a champion in any other era because he has what it takes to reach the top.

A man must constantly exceed his level