Quotes about Mastery

Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

No man is free until he s a master of himself!!

A masterpiece is never created in a hurry.

If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”

Remember: the amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot go wrong.

Try to grasp the essence of what the great artists, the serious masters, say in their masterpieces, and you will again find God in them. One man has written or said it in a book, another in a painting. Just read the Bible and the Gospel, that will start you thinking, thinking about many things, thinking about everything, well then, think about many things, think about everything, that will lift your thoughts above the humdrum despite yourself. We know how to read, so let us read!

And then there are painters who never do anything that is no good, who cannot do anything bad, just as there are ordinary people who can do nothing but good.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

There is no better way of coming to be aware of what one feels oneself than by trying to recreate in oneself what a master has felt.

How dangerous a master human emotion is!

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.