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For if there is an actual and present rule of God in the world, then it must be found, not in the conquest of visible enemies, but in the triumph of love and life, however halting and partial, over sin and death. And this is the work of the Spirit. And it is the calling of the Church.
- Luke Timothy Johnson
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.
- Dale Carnegie
An animal will conquer others. A Spirit-filled man conquers himself - self-discipline , self-control.
- Mark Driscoll
The good devout man first makes inner preparation for the actions he has later to perform. His outward actions do not draw him into lust and vice; rather it is he who bends them into the shape of reason and right judgement. Who has a stiffer battle to fight than the man who is striving to conquer himself.
- Thomas a Kempis
Who hath a harder battle to fight than he who striveth for self-mastery?
- Thomas a Kempis
Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles
- Thomas a Kempis
Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The greatest mountain anyone can conquer is fear.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Let it then be heard, and let man learn to feel that the true greatness of a nation is founded on principles of humanity, and not on conquest.
- Thomas Paine
It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by DELAY and TIMIDITY.
- Thomas Paine
If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.
- Oscar Wilde
All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory" was the motto of the King's Guard in ancient Greece.
- Dale Carnegie