top of page
Mastery Quotes


"Practice makes better and prayer makes perfect. The more we do, the easier it gets, and all the while praying perfects us in the art."


"Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."


"Master Teachers who genuinely embody an enlightened state of being never stop "doing the work. The ego is what assumes it knows enough, causing cessation of these daily practices, and therefore, Masters without attachment to ego are forever students of the Universe. The Masters attain an illuminated state of "Being as the outcome, yet it is the consistent "doing that promotes and maintains their enlightenment."


"Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love."


"Mastery lies on an infinite continuum, and as a result we will never reach the end. We can, however, see to it that we are as far along that continuum as our circumstance allows."


"If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it andpush it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before,push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm ofmagic."



"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."


"A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill."


"I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence. It must be noted that this is a subjective definition, and that this degree of mastery would be individual to each of us."


"Acquire several skills and find at least one that you can master, and that earns you respect."


"Jiu Jitsu gives each of us something that no other sport can. We have the opportunity to become truly great regardless of what circumstance fate has handed us. We have complete freedom and responsibility to achieve whatever level of mastery we wish."


"Invest maximum amount of time into refining your gift and become best at what you were called to do and you will be surprised how easily and quickly you will rise to the top."


"Our world is structured in such a way for you not to even know and for you not to even be told and for you not to even think about it that your life is disappearing gradually and that you are left only with very little life and time."


"If a person does not rule over money, then money will rule over him."


"If you devote three to six hours of your time every day to practicing anything repeatedly, in the next five years, you will become one of the best in the world."


"If you really one to become great, you must practice the rule of ten thousand hours."


"If you ever desire to gain the mastery over any skill and talent, then, you must convert as much time as Sebastian Bach converted."


"Make doing your best a habit, and you'll never know not doing your best."


"The products your life must have could be in the form of perfecting your gifts and talents."


"You can become anything that you want to be but the goal is for you to become your best self."


"It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities."


"Whatever it is you have been called to do, if you will invest time into perfecting it, you will soon be reckoned among the great in your society."


"I can think of no more worthwhile aim than pursuing mastery in this craft while transcending one's own limitations."


"The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding."
bottom of page