Quotes about Mastery
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
True masters deconstruct as well as reconstruct.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
A master drives you toward the substance so that you will stop defending and protecting the forms.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it — that's how we learn.
— Rick Warren
Repetition is the mother of character and skill.
— Rick Warren
I was taught that I had to 'master' subjects. But who can 'master' beauty, or peace, or joy?
— Kathleen Norris
God made every man to have power to be mightier than the events round about him; to hold by his firm will the reigns by which all things are guided.
— Henry Ward Beecher
No man is free until he s a master of himself!!
— Epictetus
We were masters of nature, masters of the world. We had forgotten everything--death, fatigue, our natural needs. Stronger than cold or hunger, stronger than the shots and the desire to die, condemned and wandering, mere numbers, we were the only men on earth.
— Elie Wiesel
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
We can spend our days bemoaning our losses, or we can grow from them. Ultimately the choice is ours. We can be victims of circumstance or masters of our own fate, but make no mistake, we cannot be both. The Walk - Epilogue Page 288
— Richard Paul Evans
Geography is my strong subject," Ostin said. "Everything is your strong subject," Taylor said.
— Richard Paul Evans