“ I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self. ”
- Aristotle- Copy
“ If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. ”
- Hazrat Ali Ibn e Abi Talib- Copy
“ They can conquer who believe they can. He has not learned the first lesson in life who does not every day surmount a fear. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
“ The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you. ”
- Will Rogers- Copy
“ Who, apart From ourselves, can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats? ”
- Christopher Fry- Copy
“ I think in Atlantic Canada, because of what happened in the decades following Confederation, there is a culture of defeat that we have to overcome. ”
- Stephen Harper- Copy
“ When things are at their worst I find something always happens. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
“ If I were playing third base and my mother were rounding third with the run that was going to beat us, I'd trip her. Oh, I'd pick her up and brush her off and say, "Sorry, Mom," but nobody beats me. ”
- Leo Durocher- Copy
“ You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. Please remember that your difficulties do not define you. They simply strengthen your ability to overcome. ”
- Maya Angelou- Copy
“ A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished. ”
- Johann Christoph Schiller- Copy
“ Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated. ”
- Voltaire- Copy
“ Christ's grave was the birthplace of an indestructible belief that death is vanquished and there is life eternal. ”
- Adolph Harnack- Copy
“ I will write of him who fights and vanquishes his sins, who struggles on through weary years against himself … and wins. ”
- Caroline Begelow Lerow- Copy
“ Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ”
- Emil Cioran- Copy
“ She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being. ”
- Miguel de Cervantes- Copy
“ The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
“ Somebody may beat me, but they are going to have to bleed to do it. ”
- Steve Prefontaine- Copy
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