Top 60 Mastery Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Discipline Quotes, Interesting Quotes, Excellence Quotes

2. “Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.”

— Will Smith

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Learning Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

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

— Leonardo da Vinci

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Short Deep Quotes

4. “Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Study Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Practice Quotes, Quotes About Skills

5. “When it comes to mastering a skill, time is the magic ingredient.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Practice Quotes, Quotes About Skills

6. “See to it that you temper yourself with one thousand days of practice, and refine yourself with ten thousand days of training.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Warrior Quotes, Practice Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes

7. “Mastery is not a question of genetics or luck, but of following your natural inclinations and the deep desires that stir you from within.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Desire Quotes, Luck Quotes

8. “Practice is the price of mastery. Whatever you practice over and over again becomes a new habit of thought and performance.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Practice Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Quotes About Skills

9. “Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”

— Ludwig van Beethoven

Also featured in: Wisdom Quotes, Art Quotes

10. “Once you have mastered time, you will understand how true it is that most people overestimate what they can accomplish in a year – and underestimate what they can achieve in a decade!”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

11. “By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius

Also featured in: Interesting Quotes, Study Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Knowledge Quotes

12. “Self-awareness is a key to self-mastery.”

— Gretchen Rubin

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Self-Realization Quotes, Wellness Quotes

13. “Every master was once a disaster.”

— T. Harv Eker

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

14. “Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you’re really going to excel in it.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Inspirational Career Quotes

15. “It never ceases to amaze me to see how much territory can be grasped if one merely masters and consistently uses all the obvious and easily learned principles.”

— Charlie Munger

Also featured in: Success Quotes

16. “It’s only those who are persistent and willing to study things deeply, who achieve the master work.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Positive Work Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

17. “We all can be masters at our craft, but you have to make sacrifices that come along with making that decision.”

— Kobe Bryant

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Gym Motivation Quotes

18. “True genius, in strategy or anywhere, lies in self-control, self-mastery, presence of mind, fluidity of thought.”

— Robert Greene

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes

19. “Practice makes the master.”

— Patrick Rothfuss

Also featured in: Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes, Quotes About Skills

20. “A wise man will be master of his mind, a fool will be its slave.”

— Publilius Syrus

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Smart Quotes, Thought Provoking Quotes

21. “If you want to be successful, find someone who has achieved the results you want and copy what they do and you’ll achieve the same results.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Prosperity Quotes, Strategy Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Making Money Quotes

22. “The mind is incredible. Once you’ve gained mastery over it and channelled its powers positively for your purpose, you can do anything.”

— Arnold Schwarzenegger

Also featured in: Mental Strength Quotes, Achievement Quotes

23. “You are not a helpless victim of your own thoughts, but rather a master of your own mind.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Care Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

24. “When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.”

— John Ruskin

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Creativity Quotes

25. “Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty.”

— K. Anders Ericsson

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Practice Quotes, Quotes About Skills

26. “The three things that motivate creative people – autonomy, mastery, purpose!”

— Daniel H. Pink

Also featured in: Professional Growth Quotes, Engagement Quotes

27. “It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes

28. “Strive for perfection in everything. Take the best that exists and make it better. If it doesn’t exist, create it. Accept nothing nearly right or good enough.”

— Henry Royce

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Engineering Quotes

29. “No matter what your current ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.”

— Carol S. Dweck

Also featured in: Psychology Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Encouraging Quotes for Students, Lifelong Learning Quotes

30. “I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”

— Michelangelo

Also featured in: Aesthetic Quotes, Art Quotes, Genius Quotes

31. “Because of your belief in external things you think power into them by transferring the power that you are to the external thing. Realize you yourself are the power you have mistakenly given to outer conditions.”

— Neville Goddard

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Intention Quotes, Imagination Quotes

32. “Once you have found out what you love to do, there is only one goal: to be the best in the world at it.”

— Mark Cuban

Also featured in: Hustle Quotes, Dream Big Quotes

33. “I challenge you to make your life a masterpiece. I challenge you to join the ranks of those people who live what they teach, who walk their talk.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Men

34. “Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!”

— Bruce Lee

Also featured in: Never Give Up Quotes, Dedication Quotes, Martial Arts Quotes, Workout Quotes

35. “Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence.”

— J. R. D. Tata

36. “You haven’t taught until they’ve learned.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Teacher Quotes

37. “Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve regardless of how many times you may have failed in the past or how lofty your aims and hopes may be.”

— Napoleon Hill

Also featured in: Dreaming Big Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Intention Quotes, Willpower Quotes

38. “The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.”

— Pearl S. Buck

Also featured in: Tuesday Work Quotes

39. “You have to apply yourself each day to becoming a little better. By becoming a little better each and every day, over a period of time, you will become a lot better.”

— John Wooden

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Consistency Quotes

40. “All skills are learnable.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

41. “If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Service Quotes, Legacy Quotes, Duty Quotes

42. “You practice and you get better. It’s very simple.”

— Philip Glass

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes

43. “I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to.”

— Evel Knievel

Also featured in: Believe in Yourself Quotes, Boldness Quotes

44. “Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent.”

— Benjamin Bloom

45. “Love your work, then you will find pleasure in mastering it.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

Also featured in: Friday Quotes for Work

46. “Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Work, continuous work and hard work, is the only way to accomplish results that last.”

— Hamilton Holt

Also featured in: Hard Work Quotes, Grit Quotes, Consistency Quotes, Productivity Quotes

47. “A high performer is someone who says, ‘I want to be the best at what I’m doing.’”

— Brendon Burchard

48. “When you have attained the way of strategy there will be nothing that you cannot understand. You will see the way in everything.”

— Miyamoto Musashi

Also featured in: Strategy Quotes, Warrior Quotes

49. “The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Epic Quotes

50. “No matter how good you get you can always get better, and that’s the exciting part.”

— Tiger Woods

Also featured in: Athlete Quotes, Growth Mindset Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes