It is the soul’s duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
—Rebecca West (1892–1983) English Author, Journalist, Literary Critic
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind.
—Zen Proverb Japanese School of Mahayana Buddhism
Every master was once a disaster.
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
If we are to accomplish anything in a big way, a set of definite objective must be established.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
There are no limits to your possibilities! Your successes will multiply and increase in proportion to your mastery of the law.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
I have no patience for those who say that poverty is a blessing. Poverty is the greatest curse on earth.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that’s the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
With each success your faith in the law will grow stronger, until you reach the point of total conviction. Then you will be invincible.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Those who think they know everything will learn nothing.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Your progress depends upon your degree of sustained intensity in a given direction.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
A hundred things may come up to distract him and attempt to drive him away, but his picture is of paramount importance.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
I operate according to a definite, unerring law…I know the outcome before I start.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by them.
—Lin Yutang (1895–1976) Chinese Author, Philologist
The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
Believe me, you can have anything you want—and in abundance-when you learn to tune into the power within, an infinitely greater power than electricity, a power you have had from the beginning.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
When you work in the inner mind, you invoke and receive the help of the impersonal, unlimited resources of the universe.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
The eye of the master will do more work than both of his hands: not to oversee workmen, is to leave your purse open.
—Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat
If you use these principles wisely and intelligently, there can be no uncertainty as to the outcome of any endeavor, and no limit to your possibilities.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
—Thomas Fuller (1608–61) English Cleric, Historian
It’s important to focus on what we do best and master one craft at a time.
—Russell Simmons (b.1957) American Music Promoter
Anything you undertake will be possible to accomplish.
—Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter
The bottom line is that if you become a master at handling problems and overcoming obstacles, what can stop you from success? The answer is nothing! And if nothing can stop you, you become unstoppable!
—T. Harv Eker (b.1954) American Motivational Speaker, Lecturer, Author
Such it hath been, and shall be, that many still must labor for the one; it is nature’s doom.
—Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) (1788–1824) English Romantic Poet
It is fairly predictable, however, that when you’ve finally mastered something and gotten rid of the fear, you will feel so good that you will decide that there is something else out there you want to accomplish, and guess what! The fear begins again as you prepare to meet a new challenge.
—Susan Jeffers (1938–2012) American Psychologist, Self-Help Author
Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.
—Peter Senge (b.1947) American Management Consultant, Author, Scientist
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 (b.1936) American Writer, Aviator
There is nothing so good to make a horse fat, as the eye of his master.
—Diogenes Laertius (f.3rd Century CE) Biographer of the Greek Philosophers
Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with, it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster, and fling him to the public.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Men, at some time, are masters of their fates.
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright
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