Master Quotes - page 2

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. View quote
Desmond Tutu
Greatness The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man builds a fine house and now he has a master, and a task for life he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. View quote
Lysander Spooner
It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. View quote
William Ernest Henley
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you. View quote
Brian Tracy
I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master. View quote
Antonio Porchia
Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness. View quote
Wilhelm Reich
The ego is not master in its own house. View quote
Sigmund Freud
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves. (Thomas Aquinas)
Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Build me straight, O worthy Master Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Esteem money neither more nor less than it deserves, it is a good servant and a bad master. View quote
Alexandre Dumas, fils
Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanics laughs at strength. View quote
Samuel Johnson
It was the slave's continuing desire for recognition that was the motor which propelled history forward, not the idle complacency and unchanging self-identity of the master. View quote
Francis Fukuyama
The man who listens to Reason is lost Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Money is in some respects like fire; it is a very excellent servant but a terrible master. View quote
P. T. Barnum
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. View quote
George Washington
Sometimes, one must become a master to avoid becoming a slave. (Octavia Butler)
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth. View quote
Mikhail Bakunin
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.... And when you realize the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate. View quote
James A. Garfield
Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce. View quote
James A. Garfield
One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves. View quote
Albert Camus