Masters Quotes

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
Abraham Lincoln

Men, Both, Congress

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
Winston Churchill

Words, Unsaid, Slaves

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

Someone, Sacrifice, Reason

A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
Thomas Merton

Life, Live, Spiritual

It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.
Amelia Barr

Bad, Joy, Storm

People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates

Change, Time, Fear

The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work.
Michael Jackson

Education, Work, Greatest

To my mind the old masters are not art; their value is in their scarcity.
Thomas A. Edison

Disciples be damned. It's not interesting. It's only the masters that matter. Those who create.
Pablo Picasso

Matter, Create, Disciples

Question: Why are we Masters of our Fate, the captains of our souls? Because we have the power to control our thoughts, our attitudes. That is why many people live in the withering negative world. That is why many people live in the Positive Faith world.
Alfred A. Montapert

Faith, Power, Positive

I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.
Susan B. Anthony

Women, Men, Evil

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.
Alexander the Great

Two, Cannot, Earth

In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
Arthur Schopenhauer

Thought, Remain, Absurdity

What worries you, masters you.
John Locke

Unions in wedlock are perverted by the victory of shameless passion that masters the female among men and beasts.
Aeschylus

Men, Passion, Victory

Quality is decided by the depth at which the work incorporates the alternatives within itself, and so masters them.
Theodor Adorno

Work, Within, Quality

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.
Jimmy Carter

Women, God, Men

We wish nothing more, but we will accept nothing less. Masters in our own house we must be, but our house is the whole of Canada.
Pierre Trudeau

Nothing, Wish, Whole

The world is not looking for servants, there are plenty of these, but for masters, men who form their purposes and then carry them out, let the consequences be what they may.
Woodrow Wilson

Men, May, Looking

Officeholders are the agents of the people, not their masters.
Grover Cleveland

It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters.
Aesop

Good, Bad, Fire

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Jean de la Bruyere

May, Useful, Position

The Masters is where I won my first major, and I view this tournament with great respect. After a long and necessary time away from the game, I feel like I'm ready to start my season at Augusta.
Tiger Woods

Time, Great, Respect

Everyone knows what the Masters is, even if you're a non-golfer. People know what Wimbledon is. They know what the Super Bowl is. There are certain events that people just know about.
Tiger Woods

Everyone, Knows, Events

To be able to hold all four majors - the Masters, U.S. Open, British Open, PGA - all concurrently I think is the Grand Slam. But a lot of people have a different opinions on that. People think you have to win it in the same calendar year.
Tiger Woods

Win, Different, Same

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.
Jacob Bronowski

Nature, Science, Why

The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.
Havelock Ellis

Men, Greatest, Before

It's part of a writer's profession, as it's part of a spy's profession, to prey on the community to which he's attached, to take away information - often in secret - and to translate that into intelligence for his masters, whether it's his readership or his spy masters. And I think that both professions are perhaps rather lonely.
John le Carre

Lonely, Away, Rather

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

Life, Simple, Often

The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
H. Rap Brown

Family, Knowledge, Teacher

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