Master

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

"Men at some time are masters of their fates."

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

"People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception."

"Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace."

"A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships."

"As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."

"Courage faces fear and thereby masters it."

"So also there are tides and floods in the affairs of men, which in some are slight and may be kept within bounds, but in others they overmaster everything."

"Love is a better master than duty."

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still."

"Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power."