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They receive credit not necessarily because of the number of days they're here, but the mastery of their learning.

Gary Chapman

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

John Paul Jones

The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery - not over nature but of ourselves.

Rachel Carson

He who chooses to be a master never does just enough to get by; nor does he cut corners or attempt to cheat the system. He who chooses mastery lives his life asking, 'How can I do more, give more, be more, and thereby accelerate the achievement of my ultimate destiny?'

James Arthur Ray

A bread baker, like any true artisan or craftsman, must have the power to control outcomes. Mastery comes with practice.

Peter Reinhart

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

Kent Nerburn

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

Thorstein Veblen

If people only knew how hard I work to gain my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

18 years of witnessing Coach Gunter's mastery.

Pokey Chatman

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

This is not mastery. You don't have to ace this test.

Greg Hall

Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward.

Napoleon Hill

The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery.

Janet Erskine Stuart