Identity Quote by Edward Gibbon Download Open image ““We improve ourselves by victory over our self. There must be contests, and you must win.”” — Edward Gibbon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Identity
We improve ourselves by victories over ourselves. There must be contest, and we must win. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“If you compete with others, you may not win. If you compete with yourself, you always win by becoming better.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
“You need a mindset geared towards victory to attain victory. Embrace the vicissitudes of life with a sense of self-mastery.” — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“The victory over our inner self is a daily struggle. Be strong and do not give up.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Surround yourself with those who seek victory, those who speak victory, and those who leap for victory. They are the ones who can inspire… — Gift Gugu Mona Copy Share Image
“compete with yourself, strive to be better than yourself and you'll eventually be better than others.” — Antwi Isaac - BORN2WIN Copy Share Image
“Those who have won against themselves, are the only ones qualified enough until the future rewards success.” — Han JH Copy Share Image
“Ideally, Competition should be a wonderful vicious circle of being inspired and inspiring others to achieve excellence and being the best version of themselves.” — Tina Sequeira Copy Share Image
“Don't focus on the competition, focus on ways to make yourself better.” — Hopal Green Copy Share Image
That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The sectaries of a persecuted religion, depressed by fear, animated with resentment, and perhaps heated by enthusiasm, are seldom in a proper temper of… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[In] the national and religious conflict of the [Byzantine and Saracen] empires, peace was without confidence, and war without mercy. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Instead of a perpetual and perfect measure of the divine will, the fragments of the Koran were produced at the discretion of Mahomet; each… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Constantinople was the principal seat and fortress of Arianism; and, in a long interval of forty years, the faith of the princes and prelates… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world during which the condition of the human race was… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
If all the barbarian conquerors had been annihilated in the same hour, their total destruction would not have restored the empire of the West:… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
[Every] hour of delay abates the fame and force of the invader, and multiplies the resources of defensive war. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The science of the church is neglected for the study of geometry, and they lose sight of Heaven while they are employed in measuring… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
I don't doubt that straight white men have identity issues and identity complexes and struggle with defining themselves. — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
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The language we share is at the core of our identity as citizens, and our ticket to full participation in American political life. We… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Tell me how much a nation knows about its own language, and I will tell you how much that nation knows about its own… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth:… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
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“At the moment, then, of Man’s victory over Nature, we find the whole human race subjected to some individual men, and those individuals subjected… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
She might be without country, without nation, but inside her there was still a being that could exist and be free, that could simply… — Sharon Maas Copy Share Image