Best Masters Quotes

Any person capable of angering you becomes your master.

Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success.

The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house.

People who don’t like cats haven’t been around them. There’s the old joke: dogs have masters, cats have staff.

Remember, technology is a great servant, but a terrible master.

Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills, capacities, views about life.

Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals.

No one masters the heart.

You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

The mind is a wonderful servant, but a terrible master.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Whoever controls the volume of money in any country is absolute master of all industry and commerce.

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

The police are not entrusted with a mission which differentiates them from those they serve. Being unconcerned with ultimate purposes, they are inseparable from the persons and interests of their masters, and shine with their reflected glory.

The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone has heard of the dog suffering under vivisection, who licked the hand of the operator; this man, unless he had a heart of stone, must have felt remorse to the last hour of his life.

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.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid – but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.

You must master your time rather than becoming a slave to the constant flow of events and demands on your time. And you must organize your life to achieve balance, harmony, and inner peace.

Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves.

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I am master of my fate and captain of my soul.

Masters of the bluff and masters of the proposition, but the enemy I see wears a cloak of decency.

Always two there are, no more, no less. A master and an apprentice.

The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.

Writing … it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.

The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.

An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it.

While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior.

To the extent that the scientist’s capacity for pursuing the truth depends upon costly apparatus, institutional collaboration and heavy capital investment by government or industry he is no longer his own master.