Quotes about Mastery

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

Are we really servants when we can become masters again once we think we have done our part or made our contribution? Are we really servants when we can say when, where, and how long we will give of our time and energy? Is service in a far country really an expression of servanthood when we keep enough money in the bank to fly home at any moment?

The artist needs no religion beyond his work.

Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.

In proportion as labor is divided, arts are perfected.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act by a habit.

I will give Mr. Freeland the credit of being the best master I ever had, till I became my own master.

In His own case, now as always, the most sorrowful moods pass into the most blissful; there is never the Cross without the Resurrection; the 'Hour' in which evil has mastery passes quickly into the 'Day' where God is Victor.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.

When thou hast been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in a manner, quickly return to thyself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts; for thou wilt have more mastery over the harmony by continually recurring to it.