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386 Conquered quotes by 315 unique authors
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Discipline comes through self control. This means that you must control all negative qualities. Before you can control conditions, you must first control yourself. Self-mastery…
— Napoleon Hill
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The dramatic importance of climate changes to the world’s future has been dangerously underestimated by many, often because we have been lulled by modern technology…
— Stephen Schneider
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The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given…
— Seneca the Younger
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An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape;…
— Lucy R. Lippard
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One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.
— Boyd K. Packer
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There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me…
— Conrad Veidt
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For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be…
— Plato
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Vain indeed is all overweening pride in the conquest even of the entire universe if one has not conquered one's own passions.
— Sri Aurobindo
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Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.
— Juvenal
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A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Today there remain but a few small areas on the world's map unmarked by explorers' trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the…
— Roy Chapman Andrews
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... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those…
— John F. Kennedy
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A beginning must be made somewhere and corner by corner, department by department, space by space, all will be known and conquered. In the end,…
— John Andreas Widtsoe
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Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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There are so many worlds and I have not yet conquered even one.
— Alexander the Great
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy…
— Sean O'Casey
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A mind attacked and conquered is guided easily away from the paths of its own soul.
— Ayi Kwei Armah
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Only when holiness and worship meet can evil be conquered. For that, only the Christian message has the answer.
— Ravi Zacharias
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Sin was conquered on the cross. Christ's death is the foundation of our hope, the promise of our triumph.
— Billy Graham
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Jesus was not conquered by death. By His death, He conquered death.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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Jesus Christ our Lord surrendered in order that He might win; He destroyed His enemies by dying for them and conquered death by allowing death…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.
— James A. Baldwin
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The fact the enemies of God must face is that modern civilization has conquered the world, but in doing so has lost its soul. And…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a…
— Karen Armstrong
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Don Marquis came down after a month on the wagon, ambled over to the bar, and announced, 'I've conquered that goddamn willpower of mine. Gimme…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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