Quotes on Masters

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

The truly great man is he who would master no one, and who would be mastered by none.

An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.

A certain sense of cruelty towards oneself and others is Christian; hatred of those who think differently; the will to persecute. Mortal hostility against the masters of the earth, against the 'noble', that is also Christian; hatred of mind, of pride, courage, freedom, libertinage of mind, is Christian; hatred of the senses, of joy in general, is Christian.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

Laws are not masters but servants, and he rules them who obey them.

Nothing great or enduring, especially in music, has ever sprung full-fledged and unprecedented from the brain of any master; the best he gives to the world he gathers from the hearts of the people, and runs it through the alembic of his genius.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship.

When the spirit is not master of the world, then it is its dupe.

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.

It is imperative that we should not only master them, but also act upon them, and act very definitely.

The best servants of the people, like the best valets, must whisper unpleasant truths in the master's ear. It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose.

A newly married couple said, "What shall we do to make our love endure?" Said the Master, "Love other things together".

The master proves himselin recognizing his limitations.

The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master.

Not only was I not born to be a slave; I was not born to hope to become the equal of the slave master.

The task is not to overcome opponents in general but only those opponents against whom one has to summon all one's strength, one's skill and one's swordsmanship-in fact to master opponents who are one's equals.

Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed - first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf.

You come to the master only in deep humbleness, because learning is possible only in humbleness. You have come to surrender, not to perform, not to manipulate, not to impress.