Facts Quote by E. M. Forster

The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat.

— A.J. Cronin

There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.

— Michel de Montaigne

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by greater and greater beings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Man's greatest victory is over oneself.

— Plato

The greatest victory a man can win is victory over himself.

— Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi

Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

No man is such a conqueror, as the one that has defeated himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Conquer the thousands of man may not be called a winner, but be able to conquer yourself is called a brilliant conqueror!

— Sukarno

No man is such a conqueror as the man who has defeated himself.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is a tragic paradox that the very qualities that have led to man's extraordinary capacity for success are also those most likely to…

— Anthony Storr

Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, will come as a surprise to him.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow