Master Quotes

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly. (Richard Bach)
The Master said, "He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it." View quote
Confucius
No man is free who is not master of himself. View quote
Epictetus
Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts. View quote
Anton Chekhov
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations. View quote
Kofi Annan
A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. View quote
Rebecca West
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. View quote
Francis Bacon
The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Why is everyone here so happy except me?" "Because they have learned to see goodness and beauty everywhere," said the Master. "Why don't I see goodness and beauty everywhere?" "Because you cannot see outside of you what you fail to see inside. (Anthony de Mello)
Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? View quote
Robert Browning
The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. View quote
Elizabeth Bishop
I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel? View quote
Irwin Shaw
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny. View quote
Marguerite Duras
Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar. View quote
Robert Frost
The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master. View quote
Henry James
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature. View quote
Henry Miller
Marriage, n: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are. (Richard Bach)
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. View quote
Richard Bach
A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. View quote
Philip Massinger