Subdue Quotes

90 quotes by 72 authors

Walk more closely with God. Get nearer to Christ. Seek to exchange hope for assurance. Seek to feel the witness of the Spirit more closely… — J C Ryle
It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh. — Mahatma Gandhi
The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel. — William Penn
If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a… — Vladimir Putin
You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you; you hate it because you are afraid of it; you love it because you… — Yevgeny Zamyatin
A terrible premonition washed over me. This was how the whole world would end.... They would devour the forest and excrete piles of buildings made… — Robin Hobb
What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it… — Umberto Eco
To subdue one's self to one's own ends might be dangerous, but to subdue one's self to other people's ends was dust and ashes. Yet… — Dorothy L. Sayers
The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and… — Edmund Burke
At some thoughts one stands perplexed - especially at the sight of men's sin - and wonders whether one should use force or humble love.… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
One day I wrote her name upon the strand, But came the waves and washÃ¨d it away: Again I wrote it with a second hand,… — Edmund Spenser
Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear--civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women,… — Arundhati Roy
Subdue your heart to match your circumstances. — Joni Eareckson Tada
From the most sacred ancient text of Yoga: Oh Krishna, the mind is restless, turbulent, strong, and unyielding. I consider it as difficult to subdue… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down,… — Benjamin Franklin
The first key to leadership was self-control, particularly the mastery of pride, which was something more difficult, he explained, to subdue than a wild lion… — Jack Weatherford
Only a habit can subdue another habit. — Og Mandino
A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it… — George Eliot

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