Mastery Quotes

“Man is buffeted by circumstances so long as he believes himself to be the creature of outside conditions, but when he realizes he is a creative power, and that he may command the hidden soil and seeds of his being out of which circumstances grow, he then becomes the rightful master of himself.”
– James Allen in “As a Man Thinketh”

“One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.”
– Sir Edmund Hillary