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Quotes About Mastery

To avert disaster, we have not only to teach men to make things but to teach them to have complete moral control over what they make.
~ Prince Charles
A long-playing full shot is what always separates the men from the boys. Anybody can make movies with a pair of scissors and a two-inch lens.
~ Orson Welles
It is the eye of the master that fatteth the horse, and the love of the woman that maketh the man.
~ John Lyly
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
A man, when he wishes, is the master of his fate.
~ Jose Ferrer
Cradles are the most powerful pinning combination known to man
~ Wade Schalles
Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.
~ William Shakespeare
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
If you set out to seek freedom, then learn above all things to govern your soul and your senses . . . only through discipline may a man learn to be free.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If one man kills a hundred men, and another man masters himself, the second man is the much greater warrior.
~ Gautama Buddha
Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Swords were given to men, that none might be Slaves, but such as know not how to use them.
~ Algernon Sidney
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
~ Carl Sandburg
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
~ Dylan Thomas
Man is not fully free unless he is master of himself.
~ Epictetus
Man was not then considered a good goldsmith unless he could draw well.
~ Giorgio Vasari
pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear. We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.
~ Teresa of Avila
It is not possible to become a warrior without stopping the world. In order to do so you must believe that it is possible, and that you too are a magical being of the universe capable of doing so.
~ Théun Mares
The best hunters are not those with a natural aptitude for hunting, but those who have had to struggle long and hard to learn every trick of the trade.
~ Théun Mares
IN ORDER TO HAVE POWER YOU MUST CLAIM IT. TO DO SO ENTAILS HAVING TO FACE AND DEFEAT THE FOUR NATURAL ENEMIES.
~ Théun Mares
STRENGTH AND WARRIORSHIP ARE SYNONYMOUS. TO HAVE STRENGTH YOU MUST PRACTISE NOT-DOING. EVERY BATTLE IS AN EXERCISE IN NOT-DOING.
~ Théun Mares
Courage is the ability to control your fear
~ Thabiso Monkoe
Show your thoughts who's boss.
~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu
A Nobel horse Doesent feel the crack of his masters whip
~ The Dhammapada