Masters Quotes - Page 32

• Nature imitates herself. A grain thrown into good ground brings forth fruit; a principle thrown into a good mind brings forth fruit. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master-the root, the branch, the fruits-the principles, the consequences.

  Blaise Pascal

  Nature, Roots, Mind

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• In the vaunted works of Art, The master-stroke is Nature's part.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Nature, Strokes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1900*). “Essays”

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• The balance you have between drive and patience may be your master key to success.

  David Allen

  Patience, Keys, Balance

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• Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Patience, Sorrow, Endurance

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• My master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Law, Slave Girl, Patriotism

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.130

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• We are convinced that non-violence is more powerful than violence. We are convinced that non-violence supports you if you have a just and moral cause...If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.

  Cesar Chavez

  Peace, Powerful, War

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• We have the ability to achieve, if we master the necessary goodwill, a common global society blessed with a shared culture of peace that is nourished by the ethnic, national and local diversities that enrich our lives.

  Mahnaz Afkhami

  Peace, Blessed, Diversity

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• Abstract reason, formerly the servant of practical human reasons, has everywhere become its master, and denies poetry any excuse for existence.
  Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves. Of never acquiescing in a fraud; of never accepting the secondary-rate in poetry, painting, music, love, friends. Of safeguarding our poetic institutions against the encroachments of mechanized, insensate, inhumane, abstract rationality.

  Robert Graves

  Humorous, Poetry, Fancy

  "The Crane Bag". Book by Robert Graves. "The Case for Xanthippe", 1969.

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• I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horrors of sordid passion, and - if he is lucky enough - know the love of an honest woman.

  Robert Graves

  Believe, Passion, Poetry

  Lecture at Oxford. Time, December 15, 1961.

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• One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Jobs, Fate, Politics

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• Politics makes strange post-masters.

  Kin Hubbard

  Political, Politics, Strange

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• I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

  David Rockefeller

  Believe, Government, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To change masters is not to be free.

  Jose Marti

  Freedom, Liberty, Politics

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• Relationship is an art. The dream that two people create is more difficult to master than one.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Relationship, Dream, Art

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• If those who had set themselves to explain the various theories of Christianity had set themselves instead to do the will of the Master, how different the world would be now!

  George MacDonald

  Religion, Different, Would Be

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• He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself.

  Philip Massinger

  Success, War, Positivity

  1623 The Bondman, act1, sc.3.

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• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  Patricia Neal

  Teacher, Appreciation, Retirement

  Patricia Neal, Richard DeNeut (1988). “As I am: an autobiography”, Simon & Schuster

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• Do not worry over the charge of treason to your masters, but be concerned about the treason that involves yourselves. Be true to yourself and you cannot be a traitor to any good cause on earth.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Truth, Worry, Earth

  Eugene V. Debs' anti-war speech in Canton, Ohio (June 16, 1918), as quoted in The Call Magazine, www.marxists.org. 1918.

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• The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.

  Gustave Le Bon

  Truth, Illusion, Victim

  Gustave Le Bon (2009). “The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind”, p.137, The Floating Press

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• How could a society escape destruction if, when political ties are relaxed, moral ties are not tightened, and what can be done with a people master of itself if it not subject to God?

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Wisdom, Ties, People

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1990). “Democracy in America”

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• Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and re-read them...digest them...a student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by 20 books he has merely skimmed.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wisdom, Book, Students

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• We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Change, Encouragement, Police

  I've Been to the Mountaintop, delivered 3 April 1968, Mason Temple (Church of God in Christ Headquarters), Memphis, Tennessee

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• Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

  John F. Kennedy

  Change, Destiny, History

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• What shall I give Thee, Master?
  Thou who didst die for me!
  How can I give less than give of my best,
  When Thou hast given all to me!
  What shall I give Thee, Master?
  Thou who didst die for me!
  How can I give less than all of my best,
  I must give all to Thee!

  David Berg

  Christmas, Giving, Given

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• I was thinking of my patients, and how the worst moment for them was when they discovered they were masters of their own fate. It was not a matter of bad or good luck. When they could no longer blame fate, they were in despair.

  Anais Nin

  Confidence, Good Luck, Fate

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