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Quotes About Mastery

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.
~ Sara Genn
The greatest possession is Self-possession.
~ Ethel Mumford
I set out to be the best and I am.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Greatest Enemy of Confidence is Inexperience
~ Gun Gun Febrianza
Confidence is simply knowing what you're able to do.
~ Lolly Daskal
The cool thing about playing is that the more you do it, the better you get.
~ Steve Vai
I'm a magician. I've learned to do some really cool tricks like levitating myself and melting forks.
~ Blake Michael
Genius is talent exercised with courage.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn to fly not by being fearless, but by the daily practice of courage.
~ Sam Keen
Courage is resistance to fear mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
~ Mark Twain
If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.
~ Sam Snead
You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.
~ J. K. Rowling
For one who has really mastered the way of warfare, his enemy can do nothing to escape death.
~ Sun Bin
If I die, what a beautiful death.
~ Philippe Petit
I can teach you how to bottle fame, brew glory, even put a stopper on death.
~ J. K. Rowling
You just Sanisa in the death overs. He is simply the best in the world.
~ Alastair Cook
Everybody's trapped in the thing he does best.
~ Philip Roth
It's very hard to master and if you're not learning all the time, you will fail. That being said, humility in the face of the game is extremely different than humility in the face of your opponents.
~ Philip Tetlock
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit
~ Phillip C. McGraw
There is no adaptation or universal applicability in men, but each has his special talent, and the mastery of successful men consists in adroitly keeping themselves where and when that turn shall be oftenest to be practised.
~ Phillip Lopate
Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent, in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly.
~ Plato
For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories. He was a wise man who invented beer
~ Plato
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself.
~ Plato