Masters Quotes - Page 31

• Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

  Nathanael Emmons

  Positive, Happiness, Success

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• We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Time, Long, Moments

  Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.

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• Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.

  Bruce Lee

  Inspirational, Growth, Mold

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• The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

  John of the Cross

  Inspirational, Long, Soul

  St. John of the Cross (1991). “The Collected Works of Saint John of the Cross”, p.86, ICS Publications

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• I have great faith that there's a master plan and that even if we don't understand it and even if it's heartbreaking, there's a reason for everything. And I hold on to that.

  Terri Irwin

  Inspirational, Heartbreaking, Reason

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• Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Fate, Men

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• But the great Master said, "I see
  No best in kind, but in degree;
  I gave a various gift to each,
  To charm, to strengthen, and to teach".

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Teaching, Learning, Degrees

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1859). “Poems. New, complete ed”, p.188

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• Politics makes strange post-masters.

  Kin Hubbard

  Political, Politics, Strange

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• Marketing takes a day to learn. Unfortunately, it takes a lifetime to master.

  Philip Kotler

  Business, Marketing, Lifetime

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• For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.

  Phillips Brooks

  Christmas, Children, Cottages

  Phillips Brooks, “Christmas Everywhere”

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• Master technique and then forget about it and be natural.

  Anna Pavlova

  Dance, Dancing, Ballet

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• Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Inspirational, Education, Teacher

  Leonardo (da Vinci) (1957). “Notebooks”

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• Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot. How is it possible that society should escape destruction if the moral tie is not strengthened in proportion as the political tie is relaxed? And what can be done with a people who are their own masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Faith, Ties, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1862). “Democracy in America”, p.393

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• Service cannot be expected from a friend in service; let him be a freeman who wishes to be my master.

  Martial

  Freedom, Wish, Expected

  "Epigrams" by Martial, II. 32. 7, c. 80-104 AD.

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• The function off the historian is neither to love the past nor to emancipate himself from the past, but to master and understand it as the key to the understanding of the present.

  Edward Hallett Carr

  Past, Keys, History

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• Drop jealousy and love wells up. Jealousy means that I am the owner. It is an ego trip, and wherever there is ego there is poison, and the poison kills the very source of love. One has to become aware of just these few things and discard them and one's life becomes a lotus of love. And then there is no need to go in any search of god, god will come in search of you. This is my observation, that god always comes seeking the true seeker. Whenever the disciple is ready the master appears.

  Rajneesh

  Jealousy, Mean, Ego

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• In all living there is a certain narrowness of application which leads to breadth and power. We have to concent on a thing in order to master it. Then we must be broad enough not to be narrowed by our specialties.

  Ralph Washington Sockman

  Knowledge, Order, Enough

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• Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Life, Passion, Soul

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Mine to the core of the heart, my beauty!
  Mine, all mine, and for love, not duty:
  Love given willingly, full and free,
  Love for love's sake - as mine to thee.
  Duty's a slave that keeps the keys,
  But Love, the master, goes in and out
  Of his goodly chambers with song and shout,
  Just as he please - just as he please.

  Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

  Life, Song, Heart

  Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, “Plighted”

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• This is a gathering of Lovers.
  In this gathering
  there is no high, no low,
  no smart, no ignorant,
  no special assembly,
  no grand discourse,
  no proper schooling required.
  There is no master,
  no disciple.
  This gathering is more like a drunken party,
  full of tricksters, fools,
  mad men and mad women.
  This is a gathering of Lovers.

  Rumi

  Life, Smart, Party

  "Hush Don't Say Anything to God". Book by Rumi, translated by Shahram Shiva, 1999.

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• Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see,
  Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Life, Art, Slave

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• The Government should create, issue, and circulate all the currency and credits needed to satisfy the spending power of the Government and the buying power of consumers. By the adoption of these principles, the taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest. Money will cease to be master and become the servant of humanity.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Issues, Government, Adoption

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• Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Money, Freedom, Liberty

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• Master your instrument. Master the music. And then forget all that bullshit and just play.

  Charlie Parker

  Music, Play, Bullshit

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• What I know of the divine sciences and Holy Scriptures, I learned in woods and fields. I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.

  Bernard of Clairvaux

  Life, Nature, Religion

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