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Letter "C" » conquering
«Trials, temptations, disappointments - all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fiber of character but strengthen it. Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy.»
Author: James Buckham
| Keywords:
conquering, disappointments, fiber, fibers, fund, funding, helps, hindrance, hindrances, moral character, represents, rightly, strengthen, temptation, temptations, Trials, uses
«All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.»
«The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.»
Author: Pierre de Coubertin
(Educator)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
conquering, games, Olympic, Olympic Games
«To conquer oneself is a greater task than conquering others»
«?There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.?»
Author: Fyodor Dostoyevsky
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
conquering, enslaving, interests, of their own, rebels, The Miracle
«Conquering any difficulty always gives one a secret joy, for it means pushing back a boundary-line and adding to one's liberty.»
Author: Henri Frederic Amiel
| About:
Joy,
Risk-taking
| Keywords:
adding, boundary, boundary line, conquering, difficulty, give back, Give Me Liberty, line, one line, pushing, push back
«Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.»
«All talk of winning the people by appealing to their intelligence, of conquering them by impeccable syllogism, is so much moonshine»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
appealing, conquering, impeccable, moonshine, syllogism, syllogisms, talk of
«He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| About:
Fear,
Life
| Keywords:
conquering, everyday, learned, secret, The Secret
«Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
(Dramatist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Temptation
| Keywords:
conquering, endured, fund, funding, Moral right, nobler, represents, trial, weathered
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