One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

Quote by Leonardo Da Vinci

Topics: Self Mastery Quotes

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction...

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People...

The depth and strength of a human character are defined by its moral reserves. People...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far...

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how...

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

I have learned from an early age to abjured the use of meat, and the...

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Experience is what you got by not having it when you need it.

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should...

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should...

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap...

I have wasted my hours.

I have wasted my hours.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a...

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.