Subdue Quotes
90 quotes by 72 authors
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No confict is so severe as his who labors to subdue himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
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Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they would not harm…
— William Penn
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,…
— John Henry Newman
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Give me some mud off a city crossing, some ochre out of a gravel pit and a little whitening and some coal dust and I…
— John Ruskin
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We must by every means humble our hearts and subdue our proud intellect, lest we should be like the contemporaries of the prophets, who looked…
— John of Kronstadt
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If you see the fury and hear the howling of the tempest, or read of shipwrecks, think of the storm of human passions causing daily…
— John of Kronstadt
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To Subdue an enemy without fighting is the greatest of skills
— Sun Tzu
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I've firmly come to the conclusion that there are no 'themes' for me anymore. I can't be told who to hate, who to fight, who…
— Ram Dass
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There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control…
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
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I had learned volleyball in the Navy, where all the captains and admirals wanted to be spikers, and I found then that a man who…
— James A. Michener
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The US wants to subdue Russia, to solve US problems at Russia's expense. No one in history ever managed to do this to Russia, and…
— Vladimir Putin
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R-4 got stuck on the First Law. "Can anyone really protect a human being from all harm whatever?" it thought. "No. It is inevitable that…
— John Thomas Sladek
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Tis easy to break an idol, very easy: to regard the self as easy to subdue is folly, folly.
— Unknown Author
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One may not always know his purpose until his only option is to monopolize in what he truly excels at. He grows weary of hearing…
— Criss Jami
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For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the…
— C.S. Lewis
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In vain he seeketh others to suppress, Who hath not learn'd himself first to subdue.
— Edmund Spenser
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Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on…
— Emma Goldman
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Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law.
— John Milton
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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Can we fight against and subdue ourselves? That is the greatest difficulty we ever encountered, and the most arduous warfare we ever engaged in.
— Brigham Young
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