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Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

— Alan Cohen

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.

— Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

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.

— Albert Einstein

I think one of my greatest gifts is leading worship.

— Michael W. Smith

Good servants frequently make good masters.

— Jupiter Hammon

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.

— Nathalie Sarraute

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

— Robert Anton Wilson

But some one will say that this supreme Being, who made all things, and those also who conferred on men particular benefits, are entitled to their respective worship.

— Lactantius

He is great enough that is his own master.

— Joseph Hall

✗Opposing Perspectives

I entreat masters to live a good life and faithfully to instruct their scholars, especially that they may love God and learn to give themselves to knowledge, in order to promote His honour, the welfare of the state, and their own salvation, but not for the sake of avarice or the praise of man.

— Jan Hus

I have been my own disciple and my own master. And I have been a good disciple but a bad master.

— Antonio Porchia