it is better to conquer our grief than to deceive it.

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles.

— Gautama Buddha

Greater in battle than the man who would conquer a thousand-thousand men, is he who would conquer just one — himself. Better to conquer…

— Anonymous

No matter what happens, always keep smiling, because no matter what, everything will get better from there. And if you can do that, then…

— Meghan

It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not…

— Buddha

Everest you won't change, but I will get better...I will conquer you.

— Edmund Hillary

“When you slice the truth too thin, you deceive.”

— Eileen Wilks

“In my opinion, a lie is a physical act, verbal statement, or omission, deliberately designed to deceive another of the truth.”

— David Craig

No, it's not that they're bad. It's that they're obliged to pretend they're good. They've been brought up to deceive and be cunning, to…

— Carlos Fuentes

Nothing is so easy as to deceive oneself; for what we wish, we readily believe.

— Demosthenes

“When people say they do not care what others thing of them, for the most part they deceive themselves”

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Looks sure can be deceiving: not every ‘ugly’ person is a ‘bad’ person (or is guilty of whatever it is that they are accused…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

— Marcel Proust

“To recklessly excuse a failure is to believe that I’ve effectively erased it from the story of my life, when I’ve actually imprinted it…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

“She knows she's deceiving herself about that, but she prefers to deceive herself. She desperately needs to believe such pure joy is still possible.”

— Margaret Atwood

We deceive ourselves when giving respect to the person for whom we have surrendered ourselves, when we respectively expect them to be as we…

— Friedrich Nietzsche