Quotes about Mastery
Skill to do comes of doing.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers.
- Paulo Coelho
We are the masters of our fate, the captains of our souls, because we have the power to control our thoughts.
- Napoleon Hill
Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.
- Elie Wiesel
Nothing truly stops you. Nothing truly holds you back. For your own will is always within your control.
- Epictetus
Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
- William Hazlitt
We learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. One becomes in some area an athlete of God.
- Martha Graham
Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible.
- Mahatma Gandhi