Top 100 Life Masters Quotes
#1. Rethink success: Few people will ever discover that the most important business they will ever run.. is their life!
Tony Dovale
#2. Karla was the first woman since Joni he'd wanted to love him. But if he couldn't love her in return, what kind of life would that be for her?
Kallypso Masters
#3. O world, that's you!
You are but a widened place in the river
Where Life looks down and we rejoice for her
Mirrored in us, and so we dream
And turn away
Edgar Lee Masters
#4. The whole of life, its masters, its adventurers, then appeared in long ranks of magnificent human beings behind me; and I was the inheritor; I, the continuer; I, the person miraculously appointed to carry it on.
Virginia Woolf
#5. All through my school life I was appalled by the fact that masters and senior boys were allowed quite literally to wound other boys, and sometimes very severely.
Roald Dahl
#6. Music is definitely my mood master. It's a must have for me on set, and in my life to inspire and motivate me.
Erin Heatherton
#7. Economy, prudence, and a simple life are the sure masters of need, and will often accomplish that which, their opposites, with a fortune at hand, will fail to do.
Clara Barton
#8. You are the master of your life, and the Universe is answering your every command.
Rhonda Byrne
#9. I've been very lucky in my long life. On three continents, in diverse cultures, through happy moments, not-so-happy moments, and moments as marvelous as this one, I've had the privilege of working with the cinema's greatest masters.
Dino De Laurentiis
#10. We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.
Richard J. Foster
#11. The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life.
Plato
#12. All the masters tell us that the reality of life - which our noisy walking consciousness prevents us from hearing - speaks to us chiefly in silence.
Karlfried Graf Durckheim
#13. This is Darrow, Inadequately scrawled, with his young, old heart, And his drawl, and his infinite paradox And his sadness, and kindness, And his artist sense that drives him to shape his life To something harmonious, even against the schemes of God.
Edgar Lee Masters
#14. We are born with two options to be slaves or masters of our destiny
Mohammed Sekouty
#15. We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our school masters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.
Montesquieu
#17. Every rebel is, with us, more or less a soldier who has missed his vocation, a being made for a heroic life ... The European race is a race of masters and soldiers. If you reduce this noble race to the work in a slave's prison like Negroes or Chinamen, it will rebel.
Ernest Renan
#18. 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.
Baltasar Gracian
#19. If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the scholar or philosopher, not the master, saint, or teacher, but life itself - direct experience of life. The same is true for art. Here, too, we an dispense with the masters.
Henry Miller
#20. It is the doctrine of the popular music-masters, that whoever can speak can sing. So, probably, every man is eloquent once in his life. Our temperaments differ in capacity of heat, or
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#21. So when in the future you will read with delight the horoscope, and will be based on these projections your life, remember that you are primarily the owners and masters of your destiny. And it's not an allegation. "Stars" affect. But do not govern. They create the background, mood.
Tatiana Danina
#22. Simonides of Amorgos says, "Women are the greatest evil God ever created: if they sometimes seem useful, they soon change into trouble for their masters." For Hipponax: "There are but two days in life when your wife brings you joy: her wedding day and her funeral.
Simone De Beauvoir
#23. To put meaning in one's life may end in madness,
But life without meaning is the torture
Of restlessness and vague desire
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.
Edgar Lee Masters
#24. I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.
Jan Hus
#25. It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word.
Winston Churchill
#26. In my opinion, Donald Trump lives a life of loving and helping others as Jesus taught in the great commandment. He cannot be bought; he's not a puppet on a string like many other candidates ... who have wealthy donors as their puppet masters.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#27. The form and color which guide men experienced in the study of the masters are not always recognized by laymen. Yet they can feel the genuineness of an artist's response to the life they know.
Walter Pach
#28. This is life's sorrow:
That one can be happy only where two are;
And that our hearts are drawn to stars
Which want us not.
Edgar Lee Masters
#29. In a Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace, people are promoted based upon skillset, AND more importantly MINDSET
Tony Dovale
#30. Unless we do more than simply learn the trade of our time, we are but apprentices, and not yet masters of the art of life.
Henry David Thoreau
#31. What is my joy if all hands, even the unclean, can reach into it? What is my wisdom, if even the fools can dictate to me? What is my freedom, if all creatures, even the botched and the impotent, are my masters? What is my life, if I am but to bow, to agree and to obey?
Ayn Rand
#32. The masters of life know the way, for they listen to the voice within them, the voice of wisdom and simplicity, the voice that reasons beyond cleverness and knows beyond knowledge.
Benjamin Hoff
#33. Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.
Sathya Sai Baba
#34. No kings died tonight. No great rulers or masters of the world. Just people. The people Ash had passes every day of his life without even noticing. Now he knew what each life had meant and realized they had all been great.
Sarwat Chadda
#35. Our servants (weaker nations) are becoming our masters. You have my word: As long as there is life in me, I will spend the rest of my days fighting to restore the lost sovereignty of the United States ...
Pat Buchanan
#36. But on those Friday afternoons, ambition did not spread its wings to embrace the study of medicine. We all wanted to be masters like our teachers. Their life appeared to be so enjoyable. All they had to do was learn the lessons set, by heart, and sit and hear boys repeat them by rote.
Austin Clarke
#37. And I never started to plow in my life
That some one did not stop in the road
And take me away to a dance or picnic.
I ended up with forty acres;
I ended up with a broken fiddle
And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories,
And not a single regret.
Edgar Lee Masters
#38. And then I knew I was one of Life's fools,
Whom only death would treat as the equal
Of other men
Edgar Lee Masters
#39. Dream masters create a masterpiece of life; they control the dream by making choices.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#40. The foraging for food and water, the struggle for life in a world without masters, housed in a body that man had made dependent on himself.
Richard Matheson
#41. It would be nice once during my life to go over [to Europe] and study the original paintings of the Masters.
E. J. Hughes
#42. The only enlightened masters I know are the people that I see every day and the people that I've seen through my life who have had the understanding, at some level, that we're here to express love.
Richard Bach
#43. There are many who wish to be masters over others. Rare indeed is the man who wishes to be master of himself
Radhe Maa
#45. 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.
Elizabeth Lesser
#46. Masters of flight don't learn to fly because of all that helped them, they learnt to fly, despite all that tried to stop them.
Nikki Rowe
#47. But the great wisdom of life is to realize that we can be the masters of the things that try to enslave us
Paulo Coelho
#48. If not for the pose, the arms crossed over her chest as she surveyed the dark sea churning around her, she might have been one of the great masters' statues brought to life. And in a thousand different ways, she was just as entirely out of his reach.
Alexandra Bracken
#49. The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.
Chi Chi Rodriguez
#50. There is a persistent funny form of suspicion in most of us that we can solve our own problems and be the masters of our own ships of life, but the fact of the matter is that by ourselves we can only be consumed by our problems and suffer the shipwreck.
Harry Stack Sullivan
#51. All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it
W.B.Yeats
#52. But a man can never avenge himself on the monstrous ogre Life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#53. The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can actually choose the direction of our thoughts instead of just letting them run along the grooves of conditioned thinking, we become the masters of our own lives.
Eknath Easwaran
#54. Life is a journey for us all. We all face trials. We all have ups and downs. All of us are human. But we are also the masters of our fate. We are the ones who decide how we are going to react to life.
Elizabeth Smart
#55. This life is a dance, not a battle. We are all part of this world, not masters of it.
Kate Constable
#56. Do not live in the shadow of the masters for ever. Learn to live in the light of your soul. Life deserves full expression.
Amit Ray
#57. You can't be both a painter and a musician and master anything. You can't. And live a life.
Brian Chippendale
#58. True masters are those who've chosen to make a life rather than a living.
Neale Donald Walsch
#59. I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life.
Vincent Piazza
#60. A zen master's life is one continuous mistake.
Dogen
#61. We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery ... It's not a life.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
#62. We can't do anything but snap at each other," I said. "The masters made sure of that. Anything too extreme would get us expelled for Conduct Unbecoming a Member of the Arcanum. Why do you think I haven't made his life a hell?"
"You're lazy?" Wil suggested.
Patrick Rothfuss
#63. The truth is that there are no "masters" in the spiritual life. Mature and wise teachers, yes. But fundamentally we are all beginners receiving and giving on our knees before God and with open hands before one another. In this business no one "lords it over" another. Pay
Richard J. Foster
#64. When you ask for assistance from your guides and the Masters of Light
Know that they already help you as much as they can.
It is you who must come to meet them halfway.
Do not ask them as if they had power to change your life.
They only can guide you to be your own best guide.
Raphael Zernoff
#65. The weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.
Edgar Lee Masters
#66. We are the masters of our reality.
Kat Von D.
#67. Liquor wasn't forbidden in the Order, but it was frowned upon by the more Faithful masters. Some said anything that dulled the senses was a barrier to the Faith, the less a man remembered of his life the less he had to take with him to the Beyond.
Anthony Ryan
#68. There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#69. The mountains were his masters. They rimmed in life. They were the cup of reality, beyond growth, beyond struggle and death. They were his absolute unity in the midst of eternal change.
Thomas Wolfe
#70. Where I found the living, there I found the will to power; even in the will of servants I found the will to be master.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#71. Every film I make I feel like I am getting a mini-masters degree, it's a wonderful life path and you get to immerse yourself in an intriguing world for a couple of years.
Liz Garbus
#72. [Tea-masters] have given emphasis to our natural love of simplicity, and shown us the beauty of humility. In fact, through their teachings tea has entered the life of the people.
Okakura Kakuzo
#73. I want to master life and death.
Ted Bundy
#74. A Consciously Conscious Revolutionary Workplace mindset, is People Firsts, to ensure that it's not a prostitute of our children's future.
Tony Dovale
#75. I believe in human liberty as I believe in the wine of life. There is no salvation for men in the pitiful condescension of industrial masters. Guardians have no place in a land of freemen.
Woodrow Wilson
#76. Experts devote their life to training. Masters devote their training to life.
Dan Millman
#77. She had just turned a page in her life - no, more accurately, she had started a new book entirely.
Kallypso Masters
#78. Smartass Disciple: If there were two masters, which one should I listen to?
Master of Stupidity: Use the ears to the one who looks so stupid, eyes to else.
Toba Beta
#79. Don't mistake your Masters kindness for a weak spirit. He has killed more men than you've probably ever known in your young life. There are different types of evil in this world , Cricket. Some,more openly displayed then others
M.S. Willis
#80. What is this I hear of sorrow and weariness,
Anger, discontent and drooping hopes?
Degenerate sons and daughters,
Life is too strong for you
It takes life to love Life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#81. The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, why fiddle you must, for all your life.
Edgar Lee Masters
#82. If it is to BE today, it's totally UP TO me NOW. Time for SWIFT Actions, with Fierce Focus, on CLEAR Goals. Time for a Mindset Reset?
Tony Dovale
#83. One class. No masters. No slaves. No black. No white. No Jew. No Christian. One race
The human race.
Edith Hahn Beer
#84. We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
Billy Childish
#85. Friends who love us know that motherhood is about transitioning
and adjusting, constantly, to those changes. We must become masters of change because that is what life demands of us.
Meg Meeker
#86. In daily life what distinguishes the master is the using those materials he has, instead of looking about for what are more renowned, or what others have used well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#87. If anyone makes himself his own master in the spiritual life, he makes himself scholar to a fool.
Bernard Of Clairvaux
#88. Henry got me with child,
Knowing that I could not bring forth life
Without losing my own.
In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.
Edgar Lee Masters
#89. Set a master goal for your running and for your life.
Gerry Lindgren
#90. You not only choose between two ways of life but you choose between two masters.
Billy Graham
#91. It is genes that allow the human mind to learn, to remember, to imitate, to imprint, to absorb culture, and to express instincts. Genes are not puppet masters or blueprints. Nor are they just the carriers of heredity. They are active during life;
Matt Ridley
#92. The greatest honor that has come to me, and that can ever come to me in my life, is to be Grand Master of Masons in Missouri.
Harry S. Truman
#93. I like religion and art because they know they are servants to life; I hate science and philosophy because they think they are its masters.
Raheel Farooq
#94. My father still reads the dictionairy every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words
Arthur Scargill
#95. How shall the soul of a man be larger than the life he has lived?
Edgar Lee Masters
#96. The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent, wounding, to the point that we want to destroy or repaint it. We want to be masters of the future only for the power to change the past.
Milan Kundera
#97. The masters were said to be profound
because they show the greatest wisdom
when comfortable
in Life's mysterious
and unknown depths
Lao-Tzu
#98. And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through the centuries, and great men, heroes and masters, spring from it and make the world better by having lived.
Jack London
#99. It is remarkable, in cats, that the outer life they reveal to their masters is one of perpetual boredom.
Robley Wilson
#100. Master of masters,
O maker of heroes,
Thunder the brave,
Irresistible message:
'Life is worth living
Through every grain of it
From the foundations
To the last edge
Of the cornerstone, death.
William Ernest Henley
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