Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.
It is hard to fight against anger: to master it is the mark of a rational man.
The true master knows that if he had a God he could understand, he would never hold Him to be God.
Absolute discretion is a ruthless master. It is more destructive of freedom than any of man's other inventions.
"Read Euler: he is our master in everything. "
I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master.
As much as I love coaching the masters, junior cycling is obviously the future of our sport.
The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.
Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
Build up virtue, and you master all.
Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Bruce Lee are my masters; they're the inspiration for my work. Bruce Lee was a heavy fighter who threw hard punches. Jackie moves very fast and uses a lot of comedy, and Jet Li is very fluid. I've tried to combine all of their styles and added some things of my own.
We tell ourselves we're here to be flexible and to be nimble, and not necessarily to stick to a master plan.
Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.
No one masters the heart.
Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.
The spiritual master can instruct the disciple though many different formats.
The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca.
If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured.
There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.
We have little control over the outer weather patterns as we make our way through the landscape of a life. But we can become masters of the inner landscape. We can use what happens on the outside to change the way we function on the inside.