Plato Quotes

For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

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• I have seen periods of progress followed by reaction. I have seen the hopes and aspirations of Negroes rise during World War II, only to be smashed during the Eisenhower years. I am seeing the victories of the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations destroyed by Richard Nixon.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • Progress
  • Reaction
  • Hopes

• If you don't lose, you cannot enjoy the victories. So I have to accept both things.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Enjoy
  • Lose
  • Victories

• When we went up against teams that were better, I just hoped that we could steal the victories.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Up
  • Better
  • Victories

• I am still hungry; I still hate defeats. There is no substitute for victories.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Hungry
  • Victories
  • Defeats

• It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • Mountain
  • Ourselves
  • Conquer

• In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you play another show, it gets better and better.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Opinion

• There was no way to lock down, or tighten up, or Fail-Safe into Security Theater a race that covers 26.2 miles, a race that travels from town to town, a race that travels past people's houses. There was no way to garrison the Boston Marathon. Now there will be.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Up
  • Past

• In the back of my mind was the nagging discussion: where do we take the portfolio? You can get rid of TV, fine, but then you are in lighting and in health, and those don't have a lot to do with each other.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Mind
  • Health

• I was a boy soprano. I had a natural kind of voice and then trained it after my voice changed.

  

  Len Cariou
  • Boy

• Scientific discovery requires sustained funding for decades, and politicians can destroy it in a single budget cycle.

  

  Bill Foster
  • Single

• I came to win, to fight, to conquer, to thrive I came to win, to survive, to prosper, to rise To fly.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Fighting
  • Winning
  • Fly

• Yes I’m a beast and I feast when I conquer!

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Beast
  • Conquer

• Once you've been first, it cannot be done again. Not by you, not by anyone else.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Done
  • Conquer
  • Pioneer

• Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Soul
  • Sins
  • Flesh

• If I don't ask "Why me?" after my victories, I cannot ask "Why me?" after my setbacks and disasters.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Why
  • Victories
  • Disasters

• It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Firsts
  • Obstacles
  • Modesty

• Force is all conquering, but it's victories are short lived.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Victories
  • Conquering

• What I may see or hear in the course of the treatment or even outside of the treatment in regard to the life of men, which on no account one must spread abroad, I will keep to myself holding such things shameful to be spoken about.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Life
  • Treatment
  • Shameful

• When an unconquered country is conquered, people are killed... . That the beloved of the Gods finds very pitiful and grievous. ... If anyone does him wrong, it will be forgiven as far as it can be forgiven... . The beloved of the Gods considers that the greatest of all victories is the victory of righteousness.

  

  Ashoka
  • God
  • Righteousness
  • Victories

• He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is mighty" - Lao-tsu One who can control his thoughts has conquered himself.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Control
  • Thoughts
  • Conquer

• Repentance is a divine gift, and there should be a smile on our faces when we speak of it. It points us to freedom, confidence, and peace. Rather than interrupting the celebration, the gift of repentance is the cause for true celebration.

  

  D. Todd Christofferson
  • True
  • Freedom
  • Peace

• Writing is such a strange, utterly mysterious process. First, there was nothing; then, suddenly, there was something. I don't know where thoughts are born. Where the hell does it come from? I don't know. I really don't know.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Born
  • Strange

• For a man to conquer himself is the first and noblest of all victories... The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.

  

  Plato
  • Conquer
  • Victories
  • Shameful