Quotes about Mastery
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.
An actor should be able to create the universe in the palm of his hand.
- Laurence Sterne
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
- William Hazlitt
Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your chosen field.
- Brian Tracy
A bird is born knowing how to fly, but has to learn to conquer the skies.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
What man's mind can create, man's character can control.
- Thomas Edison
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Practicing archery is like practicing to be a Gentleman. When you miss the bulls-eye, you look for the error in yourself.
- Confucius
He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself
- Walt Whitman