Quotes about Mastery

Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason.

As nations become corrupt and vicious," he says, "they have more need of masters." The root of the word "vicious" is "vice"—the word simply means "full of vice." So Franklin, without feeling the need to explain himself much, is bluntly saying that "freedom requires virtue." And that less virtue inevitably begets less freedom.

In everything you do aim to excel for what is worth doing is worth doing well

When I choose to smile I become the master of my emotions.

Modern man fell into the trap of believing that everything can be explained, that reality is a simple affair which has only to be organized in order to be mastered.

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.

Desires to which we cling closely can easily prevent us from being what we ought to be and can be; and on the other hand, desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

The art of interpreting the scriptures is the only one of which all men everywhere claim to be masters.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. — Thomas Hudson

he who ruleth his spirit is greater than he that taketh a city

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.