Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Mastery

To the Master’s honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton’s ground.
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

If people knew how hard I had to work to gain my mastery, it wouldn’t seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo (1475–1564) Italian Painter, Sculptor, Architect, Poet, Engineer

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!-incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn’t know what fear was,” we ought always to add the flea-and put him at the head of the procession.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

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 (1879–1955) German-born Physicist

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.
Dan Millman (b.1946) American Children’s Books Writer, Sportsperson

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Tryon Edwards American Theologian

People with a high level of personal mastery are able to consistently realize the results that matter most deeply to them—in effect, they approach their life as an artist would approach a work of art. The do that by becoming committed to their own lifelong learning.
Peter Senge (b.1947) American Management Consultant, Author, Scientist

About Mike the construction worker, friend of Roark: “He worshipped expertness of any kind. He loved his work passionately and had no tolerance for anything save for other single-track devotions. He was a master in his own filed and felt no sympathy except for mastery. His view of the world was simple: there were the able and there were the incompetent; he was not concerned with the latter.
Ayn Rand (1905–82) Russian-born American Novelist, Philosopher

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
Charles de Gaulle (1890–1970) French General, Statesman

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, Writer

Every three or four years I pick a new subject. It may be Japanese art; it may be economics. Three years of study are by no means enough to master a subject but they are enough to understand it. So, for more than 60 years, I have kept studying one subject at a time.
Peter Drucker (1909–2005) Austrian-born Management Consultant

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.
Vincent van Gogh (1853–90) Dutch Painter

You cannot attain mastery by patterning yourself after another or by following custom or tradition. Sheep do that. Masters and leaders never do.
Roger McDonald (b.1941) Australian Novelist, Poet, Screenwriter, Writer

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

Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German Philosopher, Scholar, Writer

To know oneself is the first step toward making flow a part of one’s entire life. But just as there is no free lunch in the material economy, nothing comes free in the psychic one. If one is not willing to invest psychic energy in the internal reality of consciousness, and instead squanders it in chasing external rewards, one loses mastery of one’s life, and ends up becoming a puppet of circumstances.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (1934–2021) Hungarian-American Psychologist

Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.
Common Proverb

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