Masters Quotes

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  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Freedom, Men, Democracies Have

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• One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Tony Robbins (2012). “Awaken The Giant Within”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Pleasure

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.10, Hamilton Books

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• The master is a slave when he fears those whom he rules.

  Publilius Syrus

  Slave

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• Good masters generally have bad slaves, and bad slaves have good masters.

  Herodotus

  Slavery, Slave

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• The state is or can be master of money, but in a free society it is master of very little else.

  William Beveridge

  Money, Freedom, Government

  "Voluntary Action" by William Beveridge, (Ch. 12), 1948.

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  What worries you, masters you.

  John Locke

  Inspirational, Life, Perseverance

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• Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses from His Archives”, p.78, Princeton University Press

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• In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Sad, World, Dominion

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2007). “The Art of Controversy”, p.69, Cosimo, Inc.

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• 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.

  Brian Tracy

  Life, Change, Positive

  FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 12, 2014

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• A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.

  Thomas Merton

  Life, God, Spiritual

  Thomas Merton (2011). “Thoughts In Solitude”, p.64, Macmillan

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• As the fletcher whittles and makes straight his arrows, so the master directs his straying thoughts.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Inspiration, Thinking

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• Ah, Manet has come very, very close to it and Courbet - the marrying of form and colour.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Form, Colour, Marrying

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• The things I felt... about certain painters of the past that... inspired me, like Cezanne and Manet... that complete losing of oneself in the work to such an extent that the work itself... felt as if a living organism was posited there on the canvas, on this surface... That's truly... the act of creation.

  Philip Guston

  Past, Cezanne, Losing

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• Painting seems an old man's business. After a certain time you're out of it, and you just paint masterpieces.

  Alex Katz

  Men, Painting, Certain

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• The Art of Vermeer must have been there on the morning of creation.

  Frederick Sommer

  Art, Morning, Vermeer

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• The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.

  Michael Jackson

  Education, Inspiration, Learning

  Michael Jackson (2010). “Moonwalk”, p.36, Random House

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• Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.

  Grover Cleveland

  Offending, People, Political

  Grover Cleveland, United States. President (1885-1889 : Cleveland), United States. President (1893-1897 : Cleveland) (1968). “Grover Cleveland, 1837-1908: chronology, documents, bibliographical aids”

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• It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.

  Amelia Barr

  Inspiration, Positive Attitude, Sunny Weather

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres

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• As we depend upon our masters, for what we eat and drink and wear, and for all our comfortable things in this world, we cannot be happy, unless we please them.

  Jupiter Hammon

  World, Drink, Please

  Jupiter Hammon's address to the Negroes in the state of New York, 1787.

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• Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

  Alan Cohen

  Needs, Divinity, Want

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• If the mind wants to comprehend reality, it will have to come out of the past and the future. But coming out of the past and the future, it is no longer the mind at all. Hence the insistence of all the great masters of the world that the door to reality is no-mind.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Reality, Doors

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• Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

  Jean Toomer

  Novices

  Jean Toomer (2003). “The Uncollected Works of American Author Jean Toomer, 1894-1967”, Edwin Mellen Press

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• We cannot certainly, have any excuse either for taking any thing that belongs to our masters without their leave, or for being unfaithful in their business.

  Jupiter Hammon

  Unfaithful, Excuse

  Jupiter Hammon, Stanley Austin Ransom (1983). “America's first Negro poet: the complete works of Jupiter Hammon of Long Island”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.

  Allison Janney

  Jobs, Two, Difficult

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