Quotes about master
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“Those who betray an oath of loyalty and commitment are in training to become a master of deceit and deception.”

2016

“The great Zen master Rinzai, in order to take his students' attention away from time, would often raise his finger and slowly ask: "What, at this moment, is lacking?" A powerful question that does not require an answer on the level of the mind. It is designed to take your attention deeply into the Now. A similar question in the Zen tradition is this: "If not now, when?"”

Eckhart Tolle book The Power of Now

Source: The Power of Now (1997), p. 38

Question, Time

“Love is not about concepts; love is about action. The only way to master love is to practice love. You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love; you just need to practice your love.”

Miguel Ángel Ruiz (1952) Mexican writer and philosopher

Source: The Mastery of Love (1999), Ch.4 - p.71

Love, Making love, Way

“We must pity those who have such singular tastes, but never insult them: their lack is a lack in nature. They are no more the masters of arriving in this world with bizarre tastes that we are the masters of arriving bowlegged or shapely. Besides, is a man saying something disagreeable to you when he reveals his desire to enjoy you? Absolutely not! He's paying you a compliment!”

Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom

First Dialogue, Chevalier
Philosophy in the Bedroom (1795)

World, Nature

“He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

Variant: He who conquers others is strong; He who conquers himself is mighty.

“Free yourself, just as the slave seek for full freedom from his/her master.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

Freedom

“If the devil was really the master of the world, we would be dead before we knew it. He is also a citizen of the world, just like us.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

World, Dead

“"No self, no problem,” said the Buddhist master when asked to explain the deeper meaning of Buddhism.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer

Source: Stillness Speaks (2003)

Problem

“Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way. But can there be anything more puerile, more short-sighted, than the views of those Economists who believe in all earnest that this woeful transitory state means nothing but adapting society to the acquisitive propensities of capitalists, both landlords and money-lords?”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Source: "Forced Emigration," New York Daily Tribune, 22 March 1853.

Life, Money, Way, Housing

“It is always necessary to call men back to history, which is the first master in politics, or more exactly the only master.”

Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821) Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat

"Of Monarchy," p. 120
Against Rousseau (1795)

Men, History

“Behind the parliamentary puppets stands the Master of Money.”

Francis Parker Yockey (1917–1960) American writer

The Enemy of Europe (1953)

Money

“All struggle becomes celebration, ultimately, in the mind of the Master, who understands that every circumstance and condition has been produced co-jointly, by all of the Souls collaboratively creating that experience or that event, in order that each of the Souls might have a perfect contextual field within which to announce and to declare, to express and to fulfill at the next level, Who They Really Are. This is about spiritual growth. This is about spiritual expansion. This is about the Soul’s evolution.”

Neale Donald Walsch (1943) American writer

Soul, Understanding, Perfection

“So the story of man runs in a dreary circle, because he is not yet master of the earth that holds him.”

Will Durant (1885–1981) American historian, philosopher and writer

“One day you will be the one called Master (Naruto). You'll be the one to treat others to ramen. We can't stay kids forever."
- Shikamaru Nara (Naruto)”

Masashi Kishimoto book Naruto

“One can be the master of what one does, but never of what one feels.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Feeling

“It's only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Study

“We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.”

Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catholic Church

Knowledge

“Isabelle glanced back at them. "They're staring at you. Maybe their master died and they're looking for another vampire to own them. You could have pets." She grinned.
"Or," Simon said,"maybe they're here for the hash browns.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Fallen Angels

Source: City of Fallen Angels

“If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.”

Stanley Kubrick (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor

Problem

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”

Ezra Pound book ABC of Reading

Source: ABC of Reading

Books, Understanding, Reading

“You give too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.”

Agatha Christie book The Mysterious Affair at Styles

Source: The Mysterious Affair at Styles (1920)

Imagination

“Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind,
because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

Men, Drink, Knowledge, Science

“Anxiety was born in the very same moment as mankind. And since we will never be able to master it, we will have to learn to live with it—just as we have learned to live with storms.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Manuscrito encontrado em Accra

Learning

“How many times… have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

Robert Anton Wilson book Masks of the Illuminati

Source: Masks of the Illuminati

Time

“It is not possible to control the outside of yourself until you have mastered your breathing space. It is not possible to change anything until you understand the substance you wish to change.”

Jeanette Winterson book Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Understanding, Change

“The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Envy, Anger

“To an untrained eye, need and love were as easily mistaken for each other as the real master's painting and a forgery.”

Deb Caletti (1963) American writer

Source: Honey, Baby, Sweetheart

Love, Painting

“I trust you, Jared," she whispered. "I always did. I love you, Master.”

Catherine Fisher book Sapphique

Source: Sapphique

Love

“Feel free to call me by my first name: Master.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

Feeling

“In a world of bosses, you are your own master”

John Grogan book Marley & Me

Source: Marley & Me

World

“The ego is not master in its own house.”

Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis

A Difficulty in the Path of Psycho-Analysis (1917)
1910s

Housing

“You're lips are bloody.' He seized my face in both hands and kissed me. It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Art, Kiss

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

Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist

Patience

“In the fury of the moment I can see the Master's hand
In every leaf that trembles, in every grain of sand”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Shot of Love (1981), Every Grain Of Sand

“Once, I was a master at recycling leftovers. Now I cultivate the art of simmering memories.”

Jean-Dominique Bauby book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Source: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Art, Memory

“Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah

“No wonder Barrons was so determined to keep me alive, and I had a Fae prince playing lapdog, and the Lord Master hadn't yet launched a full scale attack against me. They allme alive. I was Tigger. I was the only one.”

Karen Marie Moning (1964) author

Source: Faefever

“I think it was the institution… I was trying to master it.”

E. Lockhart book The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks

Thinking

“I shall choose friends among men, but neither slaves nor masters. And I shall choose only such as please me, and them I shall love and respect, but neither command nor obey. And we shall join our hands when we wish, or walk alone when we so desire.”

Ayn Rand book Anthem

Anthem (1937)

Love, Men

“He who lets fear rule him, has fear for a master [Acheron]”

Sherrilyn Kenyon Night Embrace

Source: Night Embrace

Fear

“To learn something, to master something, anything, is as sweet as first love.”

Geoffrey Wolff (1937) American writer

Love, Learning

“Jedi Masters do not crack up- they just get eccentric.- Luke Skywalker”

Troy Denning book Star by Star

Source: Star by Star

“It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.”

Rebecca West (1892–1983) British feminist and author

Soul, Passion

“Purity in body and heart
May please some--as for me, I make no boast.
For, as you know, no master of a household
Has all of his utensils made of gold;
Some are wood, and yet they are of use.”

Geoffrey Chaucer book The Canterbury Tales

Source: The Canterbury Tales

Heart

“Foaly: Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006)

“Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Water

“After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.”

Joseph Brodsky (1940–1996) Russian and American poet and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate

Life

“It's hard not to respond when a master of the art of kissing is laying one on you.”

Charlaine Harris book Living Dead in Dallas

Source: Living Dead in Dallas

Art, Kiss

“Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2001: A Space Odyssey

Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey

World, Star, Thinking, Waiting

“I cringe when critics say I'm a master of the popular novel. What's an unpopular novel?”

Irwin Shaw (1913–1984) American politician

“Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.”

Diana Gabaldon book Outlander

Variant: That's not precisely what I had in mind."
Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of winking one eye. Instead, he blinked solemnly, like a large red owl.
Source: Outlander

Art

“Practice makes the master.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind

“We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters.”

Aldous Huxley book Brave New World

Source: Brave New World

“We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.”

Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961) American author and journalist

New York Journal-American (11 July 1961)
Source: The Wild Years

“… there was no such thing as curses. People make and break their own fortunes -they are the masters of their own fate.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Fate, People

“So you're the infamous Acheron. (Amanda)
Lord and Master of the great barbarian horde that roams the night. (Acheron)”

Sherrilyn Kenyon book Night Pleasures

Source: Night Pleasures

Night

“Tug looked nervously at his master.
Horses aren't supposed to fly, he seemed to be saying.”

John Flanagan (1873–1938) Irish-American hammer thrower

Source: Erak's Ransom

Horse, Flying

“Noise is relative to the silence preceeding it. The more absolute the hush, the more shocking the thunderclap. Our masters have not heard the peoples voice for generations, Evey and it is much, much louder than they care to remember.”

Alan Moore V for Vendetta

Source: V for Vendetta

People, Silence

“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 and founder of the theory of relativity

Soul, Personality

“I went to college. Got a master’s degree. Went to Quantico for training. Been chasing down bad guys.”
She gave her grandmother a wry look. “You know, the usual girly stuff.”

Kerrelyn Sparks (1955) American writer

Source: The Vampire and the Virgin

Guy, Training

“I learned failure early and mastered it.”

Gregory Maguire book Son of a Witch

Source: Son of a Witch

Failure, Learning

“The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!”

Wilkie Collins book Armadale

Source: Armadale

Books

“You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth by the Master Craftsman.”

Max Lucado (1955) American clergyman and writer

Source: The Christmas Candle

“Business is a game, played for fantastic stakes, and you're in competition with experts. If you want to win, you have to learn to be a master of the game.”

Sidney Sheldon Master of the Game

Source: Master of the Game

Game, Business, Learning

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957) Austrian-American psychoanalyst

Source: The Function of the Orgasm (1927), Ch. V : The Development of the Character-Analytic Technique

Love, Nature

“In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.”

Ilchi Lee (1950) South Korean businessman

Source: Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living

Life

“It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar (1905–1988) Swedish Catholic theologian

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

“What is he doing here?" Curran growled.
"He's Roland's Warlord. He's here for me." He was here for the woman who had broken his master's blade.
"Tough luck. You're mine.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Strikes

“The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.”

Vera Nazarian (1966) American writer

Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Water

“A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.”

Elizabeth Peters The Hippopotamus Pool

Source: The Hippopotamus Pool

“You do not interrupt a man when he is explaining his master plan after having been soundly defeated. Don't you watch any James Bond Movies?”

Katie MacAlister (1964) Author

Source: Crouching Vampire, Hidden Fang

“Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.”

Stephen King (1947) American author

God

“The human tongue is a beast that few can master.”

Robert Greene book The 48 Laws of Power

Source: The 48 Laws of Power

“Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.”

Spider Robinson (1948) Canadian author

Variant: ... one of the secret masters of
the world: a librarian. They
control information. Don't ever p**s one off.
Source: The Callahan Touch

Secret, World

“A God who counts minutes and pennies, a desperate sensual God, who grunts like a pig. A pig with golden wings, who falls and falls, always belly side up, ready for caresses, that’s him, our master. Come, kiss me.”

Louis-ferdinand Céline book Journey to the End of the Night

Source: Journey to the End of the Night

God, Kiss

“There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters”

Daniel Webster (1782–1852) Leading American senator and statesman. January 18, 1782 – October 24, 1852. Served as the Secretary of Sta…

A speech delivered at Niblo’s Saloon, in New York, on the 15 of March, 1837.<br>The Works of Daniel Webster, Boston, Charles C. Little and James Brown, 1851, vol. 1, p. 358 http://books.google.com/books?id=9DMOAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA358&lpg=PA358&dq=%22They+mean+to+govern+well%3B+but+they+mean+to+govern%22&source=bl&ots=oJ6IWDhF2B&sig=iYuDQMQjnHzxMjzbd6rJohrXVrQ&hl=en&ei=xqYqTKDpFML-nAeF2omjAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=10&ved=0CCwQ6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=%22They%20mean%20to%20govern%20well%3B%20but%20they%20mean%20to%20govern%22&f=false. <br class="br">Context: There are men, in all ages, who mean to exercise power usefully; but who mean to exercise it. They mean to govern well; but they mean to govern. They promise to be kind masters; but they mean to be masters.

Men, Age